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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 1214 days ago
So how moral is the behavior of the companies building/renting offices there, knowing in advance that housing is unaffordable? Only because their investors live nearby?
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Instead of talking about morality I think it’s best talk about incentives and try to determine what incentives ought to be in place in order to achieve a desired outcome. For whatever reason, it is the case that building high density housing is not allowed in many locations and the accompanying expense of that is unsustainable. I use “expense” to encompass financial, economic, societal, and environmental costs.