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by kar5pt 1383 days ago
High rents are the incentive to build more housing. What we need is federal legislation reigning in local district's abilities to block new housing from being built. Owning a home shouldn't give you the right to stop other people from building their's.
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> High rents are the incentive to build more housing.

Except that doesn't seem to work, at least in my state. Housing rentals, like medical care, appears not to respond to "market forces" in a way that actually benefits people who aren't relatively affluent.