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by camgunz 1611 days ago
Cities are hard because it's kind of a function of services and space constraints. If there's only so many square meters within 15 minutes of public transit, for example, that's gonna spike prices--as long as public transit is desired. You can look at Los Angeles for a different set of rules--super sprawl, heavy prevalence of cars and traffic, various environmental/cultural concerns, etc. City planners know all this and the zeitgeist now is the 15 minute city (or whatever number of minutes) to try and reduce these inefficiencies of scale and become less car-obsessed.

But all that aside, I'm not really talking about housing prices. I'm talking about the boom and bust cycles.