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Re:The Effects of Major Retailers Raising Their Minimum Wages by xxpor on Monday December 06, 2021 @10:23AM (#29460796)
Right, we should build enough housing that the market takes care of keeping housing cheap.
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Re:The Effects of Major Retailers Raising Their Minimum Wages by sokoloff on Monday December 06, 2021 @11:45AM (#29462039)
Who is the “we” in that sentence that should allocate their money to something with a weak or non-existent promise of seeing a return on that money?
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Re:The Effects of Major Retailers Raising Their Minimum Wages by shockeychap on Monday December 06, 2021 @12:11PM (#29462451)
The "we" is everyone who wants to build dense, multi-unit housing based on their own assessments of how it will perform, but can't because of single-family zoning laws.

Expensive housing in many areas is a result of laws that keep would-be developers from increasing the supply, fueled by the toxic NIMBY mindset.

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