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Re: by bombcar on Friday January 03, 2025 @09:54PM (#42591922)
That’s just supply and demand in another way, you could also argue the number of houses is fine you just need fewer people.

In either case you’re saying “make the number of houses correct for the number of inhabitants” - of course an obvious answer is “build more houses” but that can’t always work - San Francisco can’t remain SF at the density of Singapore. It’d still exist, but it wouldn’t be what it was.

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Re: by protocolture on Monday January 06, 2025 @09:22PM (#42618475)
You have a system designed around 2% growth.

You dont release enough housing to support 2% growth. (You also have zoning restrictions pushing the majority of housing prices)

It doesnt matter where they get the growth from, it could be baby bonuses, immigration, kidnapping migrant workers.

>San Francisco can’t remain SF at the density of Singapore. It’d still exist, but it wouldn’t be what it was.

I couldnt give 2 shits about some appeal to locale identity.

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Re: by fragmede on Monday January 06, 2025 @09:49PM (#42618632)
It's already "not what it was" before Covid and that was just under five years ago.

> No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

-Heraclitus

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