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Re:Why Don’t the 20 Cities on Amazon's HQ2 Shortlist Collect... by nerfhammer on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @04:30PM (#16217899)
Because there are tremendous social costs to intentionally causing housing shortages.

https://www.axios.com/the-great-stagnation-americans-stopped...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/business/how-anti-growth-...

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Re:Why Don’t the 20 Cities on Amazon's HQ2 Shortlist Collect... by apercu on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @04:35PM (#16217937)
Right, but we're not talking about housing, we're talking about Amazon.
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Re:Why Don’t the 20 Cities on Amazon's HQ2 Shortlist Collect... by melq on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @05:35PM (#16218511)
Well, no, you're talking about NIMBYism.

But bringing in Amazon is going to necessitate adding housing stock, and that just doesn't happen in like Boston that already have housing issues and rampant NIMBYism.

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