• @zephyreks@lemmy.ml
    hexagon
    M
    hexbear
    22
    9 months ago

    Rent is only high because of artificial scarcity of real estate. The scarcity only exists because building new housing is decided neither by supply and demand nor central government planning, but by the people who accumulate more capital if housing isn't built.

    • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
      hexbear
      4
      edit-2
      9 months ago

      porky-scared-flipped: "Did you just suggest walkable communities with plenty of brownstone townhouses? Whoa WTF I love regulations now!"