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by thepaulmcbride 466 days ago
Everybody wants affordable housing until it’s their housing becoming affordable.
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If only those people outside of my window would just "vote with their wallets" and stop demanding a roof to live under, demand would die down and prices would stabilize again.

It's simple free market economics!

/s

It is indeed simple free market economics: far more demand for housing than there is supply.