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Re:JPMorgan to spend $1B on rental homes in the US to become... by izzydata on Saturday December 31, 2022 @10:14AM (#34197110)
Usable land is finite.
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Re:JPMorgan to spend $1B on rental homes in the US to become... by gruez on Saturday December 31, 2022 @11:28AM (#34197909)
Right, but thankfully most people aren't interested in raw land area and more interested in livable space. If you bulldozed a few dozen houses and built an apartment building on top, you still increased the amount of people that could be housed there.
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Re:JPMorgan to spend $1B on rental homes in the US to become... by NoToP on Saturday December 31, 2022 @11:56AM (#34198262)
I'm on the 21st floor. This floorspace didn't come with the land.
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