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by eniotna 1693 days ago
> Change the maximum amount you can sell a house to be equal to cost of materials plus 30 days of labor for 5 people.

That's a terrible idea, who will construct anything if there is no money to be made? You don't fix those kinds of problems by price fixing, let the free market take care of the supply/demand issue. Unfortunately, the bay area is far from a free market when it comes to housing.

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They're just ideas - maybe apply a federal grant to the builder of 60k for each house they make. :shrug:

The problem with market rate is for homes is that it turns one person's ability to be homed into another person's extraneous income flip.