[Brian-Puccio]

> The inhabitants don't lose. > > Play your scenario out. > > A bunch of poor people buy 100 acres of land for $1, and they turn it into a paradise.

Yeah but instead it’s people who cannot buy land who rent their homes who make their community better only to be priced out.

> No owners “lose”

Right and for all the people who aren’t wealthy enough to own land who get priced out of their neighborhoods and have to move? Often further from places of employment?

The comment you replied to said “let's say there's a neighborhood of people who are quite poor but charitable toward one another”. Poor people buying 100 acres of land for $1 is not a “neighborhood of people”.

Your scenario is buying cheap land in hopes one day it’s expensive — basically a long shot lottery ticket.

[onlyrealcuzzo]

> Your scenario is buying cheap land in hopes one day it’s expensive — basically a long shot lottery ticket.

Or literally all of Los Angeles 30+ years ago. Or basically everywhere desirable today 30+ years ago.