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Biggest pain point in housing is the limited amounts of land and living space, not the building cost.
> what do you expect your government to do?
There are tonnes of things governments can do:
1. build more dense public housing
2. ban Airbnbs
3. ban private equity from turning the housing market in their private casino table
4. tax the hell out of empty apartments and poorly utilized land that's not for living or relevant economic productivity
5. incentivize remote work for white collar jobs so they don't all have to live in X city just to do things that could be done from anywhere else
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Biggest pain point in housing is the limited amounts of land and living space, not the building cost.
> what do you expect your government to do?
There are tonnes of things governments can do:
1. build more dense public housing
2. ban Airbnbs
3. ban private equity from turning the housing market in their private casino table
4. tax the hell out of empty apartments and poorly utilized land that's not for living or relevant economic productivity
5. incentivize remote work for white collar jobs so they don't all have to live in X city just to do things that could be done from anywhere else