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by scoofy 13 days ago
>You could feasibly quadruple the population if you wanted to, I guess my question is to why? It wouldn't decrease rent appreciably

You live in a fantasy world if you don't think increasing the housing supply by 4x will do anything to prices. Austin is a near-perfect natural experiment... not that you likely care about good-faith discussion with a month old throwaway account.