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Housing trickles down to an extent, for lack of a better term. Luxury condos lose their luster, and then become just regular condos. Regulars become cheap. It's effectively entropy. Also, people that can afford to live in a luxury home, don't want to live in a meh, or even crappy home. Yet, if they can't get a luxury home, they settle the meh one. Since they can pay luxury prices, the meh one becomes more expensive, and the less well off get frozen out, because they can't compete. If you build at the high end, or more accurately "market rate", not only can developers recoup the cost of construction, but you're also taking pressure off the meh and crappy houses, because the people that can afford luxury prices, take the nice home. Also, those currently live in what was considered "nice", upgrade to the new luxury home, because they're now in downscale, thus freeing that house and and lower the prices. https://ggwash.org/view/68496/why-are-developers-only-buildi... |