[matchbok]

Those are all very bad ideas.

[lumost]

barring rational regulation, we are likely to observe irrational actions in the future. Cost Disease is progressing to the point where prices are non-sensical. How does the median house appreciate more than the median income every year? Carry forward college prices 15 years and a 4 year degree will cost 800k. These are not sustainable numbers. Gen Alpha would be facing a 1.6 MM starting home cost and be saddled with hundreds of thousands in student loan debt.

[HDThoreaun]

Yes, we need to build more houses. Investing in real estate only makes sense when supply is constrained. When we allow people to build housing values tend more toward the cost to build as you cant speculate without constraining supply.

[cscurmudgeon]

Motte-and-bailey fallacy here. We have one comment above asking for nationalization and you are defending regulation which everyone will accept.

[flandish]

Bad for whom? Shareholders? Fuck shareholders, people need homes they can afford.

Ideas labeled as crazy or even violent have sprung up over history when people are pushed to breaking points.

Capitalism’s formula for infinite expansion will eventually break people.

How things like housing, healthcare, education, food are allowed to profit boggles my mind and is deplorable.

[whimsicalism]

Bad for making it so there are homes that people can afford.

Capitalism yada yada - people need resources in order to get homes, people will only construct homes if they get resources in exchange. These are just facts of the world - it sucks that building costs, but it does.

[cscurmudgeon]

> Capitalism’s formula for infinite expansion will eventually break people.

Is it really capitalism when local governments and NIMBYies prevent housing?

In truth, communism has broken housing in the US.