[Der_Einzige]

It is. Portland went from shockingly massively increasing home prices to declining home prices in no small part due to this.

[ProjectArcturis]

Isn't it generally better to have affordable housing than shockingly massively increasing home prices?

[QuarterReptile]

Clearly not, in the context of this discussion. No city is better off by eviscerated its tax base.

[allisdust]

Only if anyone want to live there. Why would anyone want to purchase a house or live in a place how ever affordable it is, where a mob might burn their house down.

[brailsafe]

The way I read this is that the more desirable a city is to property devs, the lower the cost of housing, which seems true. Affordable housing = Less scarcity, less scarcity comes from building more