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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.
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We really need to push for the feds to step in and start constructing government housing against the will of the NIMBYs and local and state governments then.
