Re:Oakland shows how to expand housing supply: tell develope...
by mattmaroon on Monday December 02, 2019 @01:22PM
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If housing grows by more than wages, it gets progressively more unaffordable. There is no number at which it is both a good investment and remains affordable because those two things are, by definition, opposite.
Even in the best growing markets, like San Francisco, housing is still not a very good investment. It's only gone up about 8% per year over the last decade. That significantly underperformed the s&p 500.
The real reason people want to use it as an investment is that you can get it at a very low interest loan, whereas you cannot with the s&p. this has the unfortunate effect of making well-off people more well-off, at the expense of making poor people poorer.
Even in the best growing markets, like San Francisco, housing is still not a very good investment. It's only gone up about 8% per year over the last decade. That significantly underperformed the s&p 500.
The real reason people want to use it as an investment is that you can get it at a very low interest loan, whereas you cannot with the s&p. this has the unfortunate effect of making well-off people more well-off, at the expense of making poor people poorer.