The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong

Re:The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong by wredcoll on Thursday July 31, 2025 @09:36PM (#44752166)

I'm trying to track this argument through this thread but I feel like something has gotten lost here, is there someone arguing against increasing the housing supply? Like, did someone upthread say something like "no, I think we should not build more houses"?

Or is the argument that merely building more houses isn't sufficient?

(Also presumably you could build an infinite amount of houses, but the land itself is somewhat of a fixed supply...)

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Re:The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong by stale2002 on Thursday July 31, 2025 @10:37PM (#44752508)

> is there someone arguing against increasing the housing supply?

Yes. The central thesis of the blog post is that increasing the housing supply solves the housing price issues.

And other people in this thread are going: "Uhh, well actually, have you considered that this is the fault of wealthy investors, and/or collusion or something"?

Anything to distract from the extremely simply and obvious idea that building more housing causes prices to fall.

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