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A comment on Ask HN: Shouldn't California Cut Its Housing Mandate in Light of Tech Layoffs?.

Re:Ask HN: Shouldn't California Cut Its Housing Mandate in L... by warning26 on Friday November 04, 2022 @02:41PM (#33471689)
If anything, layoffs mean more housing should be built, not less. Increase the supply and prices will fall.
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Re:Ask HN: Shouldn't California Cut Its Housing Mandate in L... by shaburn on Friday November 04, 2022 @03:54PM (#33472841)
So punish existing property holders?
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Re:Ask HN: Shouldn't California Cut Its Housing Mandate in L... by synthpop on Friday November 04, 2022 @04:33PM (#33473400)
They can keep holding their property? Homes are meant to be lived in by people.
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Re:Ask HN: Shouldn't California Cut Its Housing Mandate in L... by shaburn on Friday November 04, 2022 @04:49PM (#33473546)
In reality, many if not most have their retirements held in their. In an astronomical cost of living place, this means poverty in practice with wealth on paper; breaking the social contract of the American Dream.
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