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by pakled_engineer 3723 days ago
They built thousands of tiny self contained units in my city and they're all on AirBnB for $125+/night. The problem is foreign buyers speculating on all new housing and either keeping them vacant to park money or renting for short term only.
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I know we don't like to apply laws to company's, but that's generally illegal in most areas even if it's generally ignored. Still, if you can profitably produce such buildings then just keep building the demand for housing is finite.