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Re:San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn by triceratops on Monday June 01, 2020 @07:50PM (#23385502)
> artificial constraints on supply there is on housing

I mean this sounds good and all, but in practice property owners are at the forefront of restrictive zoning regulations too.

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Re:San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn by anthonybullard on Monday June 01, 2020 @09:28PM (#23386226)
And that is also wrong, and unjust in my opinion. When buying property, you gain a bundle of rights over the described property deeded to you. Not an infinite set of positive rights over the whole range of human activities that occur within some geographic radius around it.
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