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Re:Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable by twblalock on Saturday November 03, 2018 @02:00AM (#18368950)
The supply of land is fixed but it's not full yet, and filling it up with single-story buildings is a practice that can certainly be improved upon.

The obstacle to building new housing is not the availability of land, it is the zoning laws. Even a geographically constrained place like San Francisco, surrounded by water on three sides, could accommodate far more housing units simply by building taller structures.

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Re:Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable by drb91 on Saturday November 03, 2018 @02:13AM (#18368984)
At this point the car centric nature of the city and relatively poor public transit are far bigger barriers to growth.
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Re:Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable by twblalock on Saturday November 03, 2018 @04:12AM (#18369229)
The car-centric nature is a consequence of filling the land up with single-family homes that have garages. Mass transit is only ever popular when it is more convenient than driving and parking a car.
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Re:Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable by drb91 on Saturday November 03, 2018 @10:37AM (#18370363)
This is true. However, it does not point to an immediate solution.
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