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A comment on Finland's Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success Story (2021). Parent comment

Re:Finland's Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success ... by mlsu on Saturday January 11, 2025 @06:05AM (#42665042)
Yes, but this speculation is grounded on the possibility of extracting future rents. Which is an assumption about future relative scarcity.

We’ve all decided that it’s totally fine to artificially limit the supply of real estate. Speculation is the market (correctly, in most cases) betting that that will continue.

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Re:Finland's Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success ... by SequoiaHope on Sunday January 12, 2025 @03:22PM (#42676570)
I kept rewriting my reply until I started just looking up research. I should go do something else with my day hah but it seems the affect of speculation on price is unsurprisingly complex.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S24058...

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