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Re:Researchers Find ‘Significant Rates’ of Sinking Ground in... by aclatuts on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @06:22PM (#33170022)
If it's not a supply-side issue, it should be fine to bulldoze 100k units while everything remains the same, and the prices shouldn't change at all.
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Re:Researchers Find ‘Significant Rates’ of Sinking Ground in... by lettergram on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @06:49PM (#33170283)
My point was you can’t build enough units to have the desired impact.

If you bulldozed 100k units in SF there would be no where you live. Likely it would drop property values lol

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Re:Researchers Find ‘Significant Rates’ of Sinking Ground in... by lotsofpulp on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @06:58PM (#33170352)
aclatuts cannot build enough units, but the country of the USA can, because it has a finite number of people in it, and immigration controls.
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Re:Researchers Find ‘Significant Rates’ of Sinking Ground in... by gfaster on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:59PM (#33179780)
If you would like to be proven conclusively wrong, I'd suggest looking at Japan. Its zoning stayed much more liberal than the United States and despite the massive size and growth of Tokyo, it stays affordable. Even in SF, some of the largest housing advocates are the tech companies that don't like having to pay employees enough to live in SF[1].

[1]: https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/stripe-donates-to-californi...

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