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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by gadflyinyoureye on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @02:54PM (#39695784)
Is it? Those same people work and pay taxes. If they couldn’t live in a city due to cost that city would have less revenue as a result of fewer employed people buying goods and services.
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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by KerrAvon on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @03:14PM (#39696047)
Are you seriously suggesting that everyone in the USA should be forced to live in apartment blocks, or am I misreading you?
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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by gadflyinyoureye on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @03:59PM (#39696643)
You’re misreading me. I replied to the idea that suburbs are subsidized. The view was that people should be taxed to off set their supposed subsidies. I don’t think the suburbs are really subsidized.
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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by NullPrefix on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @02:57PM (#39695821)
>work and pay taxes

Implying that particular city job isn't subsidized. Bullshit jobs are mostly city jobs

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