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Re:The global housing market is broken, and it’s dividing en... by davidw on Monday July 25, 2022 @11:42PM (#32233997)
As someone involved in a local pro-housing organization, what I see, day in, and day out, is my own neighbors trying to stop housing. Following that... maybe short term rentals. Somewhere way down the list are institutional investors.

Just off the top of my head, in a town of 100K, I can pretty easily think of 100's of homes that were not built because of NIMBYs.

Also, did you miss the bit where Zillow got their asses handed to them because they screwed up and lost a lot of money?

Re:The global housing market is broken, and it’s dividing en... by tptacek on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @12:37AM (#32234290)
Surprising nobody, I will chime in and say the same thing. In particular, I've seen "we should be investing in new public housing" repeatedly deployed to oppose dense housing developments where I live; it's a deeply cynical thing to say, because not only does it demand that prospective residents be locked out of the area until we boil the ocean with some revolutionary new top-down housing policy, but the only reason the NIMBYs say it is because they know it won't happen --- if it did happen here, they'd be up in arms against it.