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US home prices have soared 47% so far this decade, outpacing all of the growth seen in the 1990s and 2010s
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As long as housing is considered an investment, it will never be affordable. Concrete and wood degrade overtime, so the only way the price of a house can go up is if the supply of houses gets progressively smaller while demand continues to increase. Rising housing prices are a direct result of municipal authorities failure to zone appropriately.
Increasing population outstripping supply of houses.
amen. exactly why local zoning ordinances are anti-housing.
asset prices must go up. always.
Also, keep out the riff-raff.
They are purposefully anti-housing. That is the point. And no, it is not to drive prices up but instead to ensure someone doesn’t buy the place next door and turn it into a toxic waste processing plant.
Zoning laws serve a good purpose in many locations. They also serve to maintain NIMBYism, but that is a second order effect.
zoning laws don't do that. that's the BS excuse they use and always have.
zoning laws originanted in racism and redlining, to keep the blacks from living near the whites.
learn some history.
Ok, so then what is the difference in an area zoned I-4 vs R-1.
And yes, I understand the historical context, but that’s not the topic of conversation. We are talking about their current use.
their current use is to prevent housing from being developed and this keep housing supply low so that current owners can benefit from increasing prices. hence why you have inner suburbs and cities full of single family homes where they should be apartment complexes, and and towns with 3 acre lot sizes and 100ft setbacks.
What does I-4 zoning stand for?
Concrete and wood degrade, but land can provide an income stream forever
Tbh, it's probably more about the land than the concrete and wood.