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by gruez 42 days ago
Because in practice that just means nothing gets built at all. It's like having a food shortage but not wanting to buy/grow more food unless it's fair trade, organic, permaculture certified, non-gmo, certified kosher/halal, and cruelty free. All of those are laudable goals, but if the combined effect is that nothing gets done, that's counterproductive.
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mcv 42 days ago
But that is a choice. You could also build the affordable housing and grow the sustainable food. But then you have to decide not to let it be done by people who don't want to do that, but want to build luxury condos instead.
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anigbrowl 42 days ago
That's just another false equivalent. People want affordable housing. Luxury condos are clearly Not That. Your food analogy is backwards. You're actually saying that people want affordable food, but object to building more luxury restaurants, so that nobody gets fed at all.
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gruez 42 days ago
>People want affordable housing. Luxury condos are clearly Not That

Luxury condos increase supply, driving down the price of all housing. It's economics 101.

>You're actually saying that people want affordable food, but object to building more luxury restaurants, so that nobody gets fed at all.

The point is that all the stipulations people have on top eg. "organic" makes it harder to create more supply.

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