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Re:Startup cities and the housing crisis: the only way out i... by eloff on Thursday September 02, 2021 @04:38PM (#28397051)
It's called rezoning them and letting the market handle it. Land value explodes, owners sell, developers bulldoze and build apartments.

You only have to do three things. Rezone, expedite permits, and encourage investment dollars to flow into development.

Sadly most cities that have this problem are failing on all three counts.

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Re:Startup cities and the housing crisis: the only way out i... by numbsafari on Thursday September 02, 2021 @05:39PM (#28397702)
Which, more or less, is exactly how Paris became Paris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Pa...

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