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Re:Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time by Baloo on Thursday July 14, 2022 @05:14PM (#32101538)
There's good and bad regulation. Bureaucracy in the wrong place is a pain, but without crucial regulations I feel that private capital would be even more ruthless and we'd be left with badly built homes, in badly planned communities, lacking services and infrastructure, without much care for the environmental impact..

It's really hard to see a way out of this for me without extreme interference by government..

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Re:Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time by closeparen on Thursday July 14, 2022 @07:25PM (#32102573)
In practice badly built, badly planned, lacking infrastructure, etc. are just code phrases for being different from status quo and accommodating too many people. And it's nonsense that an urban apartment building could have an "environmental impact" offsetting the sprawl and vehicle-mileage costs of not building in cities.
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