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I don’t understand this perspective. Are you really confident those measures will increase supply? I’m not. I find it really hard to predict what the outcome of any of those measures would be.

How about this one:

4. Stop artificially restricting the goddamn housing supply and catering NIMBYs, and instead allow housing of reasonable quantity and density to be built.

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While NIMBY might be a cause in some parts of the US, absurd increases in housing costs are happening worldwide, in all kinds of markets. The only way for housing to become affordable is to have homeowners take a hit in their valuation, every other solution is ultimately futile.

Yeah… so are you implying that the solutions proposed by the other post - like punitively taxing second homes - are more universal solutions to the housing crisis than building more housing?

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