[orangecat]

Rents went down for a couple years then right back up. Except now the city has a bunch of more soulless condos and is horribly congested.

So there were a bunch of people who wanted to live there and now can.

[mountainriver]

Yes there is a cost to things like a bunch of congestion, decrease of natural spaces and generally soulessness. To paint this as only good is an insane position

[triceratops]

Nobody lives there anymore, it's too expensive. /s

[hunterpayne]

Note to the mods, /s is Reddit for sarcasm and this post is a good example of the psychology that leads to people support policies that increase housing costs even though they are designed to decrease housing costs.