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Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by trailbits on Friday June 02, 2023 @06:19PM (#36171548)
When wages go up, rents go up. For rents to go down you either have to have more housing or less people in a given area.
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Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by nrclark on Friday June 02, 2023 @06:42PM (#36171785)
Or rent control.
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Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by icelancer on Friday June 02, 2023 @06:49PM (#36171841)
Rent control externalities are well-documented; long-term serious problems occur due to them, not the least of which is lower affordability.

Short review of the research can be found here:

https://www.brookings.edu/research/what-does-economic-eviden...

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Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by crooked-v on Friday June 02, 2023 @07:59PM (#36172329)
And put "California" and "more housing" together and you mostly get memes of YIMBYs laughing maniacally and crying while NIMBYs sit on piles of money.
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