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Comment by nordsieck

> It's not that the factories are being cheap (at least not in all cases), but the gov has to step in and bring real estate price under control, this is often the biggest economic gap that hurts our generation.

This will never happen.

The only way to get affordable housing is to build a lot more housing than is currently being built. But that means:

* Higher density living

* A sustained decrease in residential property values

Both of these would be very unpopular with voters. The second point would also probably cause some serious economic problems, as a lot of peoples' and businesses' decisions are based on property values generally going up faster than the rate of inflation.

parent nordsieck 4 years ago

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