• Tryptaminev@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Elastic housing supply is nonsense.

    Once a house is there it is there. You dont just demolish it, and build it up again somewhere else.

    The only thing that can be elastic is demand. And it is not because moving has high opportunity costs, people are socially integrated in the area they life, feeling at home is a crucial feeling for mental well being…

    People renting/buying to life are at a fundamental disadvantage against landlords, who only care about the money coming in. Thinking of housing as a “normal” market like idk. headphones or something shows a lack of economic understanding.