Submitted by Blecher_onthe_Hudson t3_11a2qwh in jerseycity
Blecher_onthe_Hudson OP t1_j9ps4tj wrote
Reply to comment by objectimpermanence in Want to know why NY metro housing is expensive? Answer in NYTimes OP-ED by Blecher_onthe_Hudson
>You are literally denying reality.
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>What you are saying goes against views that are widely held among economists and other housing experts.
Never stops the "socialists" who want to solve problems created by government market interference with more government interference.
xTheShrike t1_j9q3j75 wrote
Socialists do not understand economics whatsoever. Artificial government controls create artificial scarcity which leads to higher prices.
Blecher_onthe_Hudson OP t1_j9q82ea wrote
Precisely how rent control in response to a housing crisis during world War II has resulted in a continuous housing crisis for the past 80 years.
objectimpermanence t1_j9pup9f wrote
Yep, I wonder how many people realize that some of the greatest urban neighborhoods were built before contemporary zoning regulations were even a conceived.
Also, people love to rave about how European cities are designed and then they oppose changes to local zoning and building codes that would actually allow us to replicate that typology in new construction here.
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