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Re:Home galleries are hiding in plain sight across Canada by cyberax on Monday April 21, 2025 @01:48AM (#43748796)
Preventing increase in _density_ leads to better outcomes long-term.

It sounds crazy, right? Supply/demand, and all of that.

But it's an example of one of the things in economics where the effects end up being different because of collective actions. As a result, no large growing city within the US within the last 30 years managed to lower down housing prices by increasing density. I checked that using the Census statistics database.

And no, Austin (TX) doesn't count. It decreased prices by decreasing the _population_.

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Re:Home galleries are hiding in plain sight across Canada by graeme on Monday April 21, 2025 @08:33PM (#43757966)
Doesn't look like Austin's population decreased? They had a decline in net migration but a population increase.
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Re:Home galleries are hiding in plain sight across Canada by loeg on Monday April 21, 2025 @09:42PM (#43758349)
Are we talking about the same Austin, TX?

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/22926/aust...

Its population continues to grow. Basically monotonically increasing.

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