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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real est... by snidane on Saturday August 13, 2022 @11:10AM (#32450596)
> So, what instead? You want to build more housing in NYC? Great, that should work. But you have to make it cheap.

> because that's the only way a developer can recoup their enormous land acquisition,

There you go - in order to make it cheap you need a land tax, nothing else will work (alternatives have been rehashed over and over decades by georgists).

Without land tax the property market is stalled without market clearing and both tenants and developers get stuck. You won't find a solution by catering to either. The solution resides outside of this left and right dimension.

If you want the real solution, you go asks georgists. If you want to score politics points with YIMBYs or NIMBYs you keep beating the same dead horse forever.

Re:Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real est... by foogazi on Saturday August 13, 2022 @11:36AM (#32450847)
> There you go - in order to make it cheap you need a land tax

How would land-taxing make it cheap ?

Re:Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real est... by scatters on Saturday August 13, 2022 @01:10PM (#32451780)
Because you're buying the tax liability as well as the benefit of the potential rent. Under a perfect land tax those are equal, so the price of all land is zero.