[njepa]

It is also meaningless. Yes, if you get to choose what to do, you can do whatever you want. But you don't, so affordable housing remains an unsolved issue in most places. Things haven't changed and aren't changing just because people become convinced otherwise.

[cheriot]

There's a lot of people (in the US at least) that see appreciating property values as inevitable. Combined with views associating dense housing with urban ghettos from the 80s, it's one of the reasons people think building more houses won't make them more affordable.

[ryl00]

That's weird. Don't we get enough stories about Rust Belt economic hardship and Detroit real estate horror stories to know that property values don't always go up? Have we already forgotten 2008?