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Re:Our self imposed scarcity of nice places by ChuckNorris89 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @08:51AM (#29106502)
>I recall housing prices being mostly reasonable 15-20 years ago

And bitcoin was a fraction of a dollar just 10 years ago. Unfortunately, we don't have a time machine and the housing prices of today have far outpaced the earning increases that the working class saw in that time.

15-20 years ago, housing was seen mostly as a place you'd buy to live yourself, not an investment vehicle you'd buy to get grand returns from. That's the difference.

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Re:Our self imposed scarcity of nice places by dvdkon on Thursday November 04, 2021 @07:08PM (#29113545)
Our opinions on the cause aside, we had reasonably priced housing before, we can have it again, without fundamentally changing the way our cities are built (that's not to discount any other reasons to do so).
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