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Oh yeah, if the federal government were to pass laws preempting local zoning restrictions (i.e. forbidding cities from making zoning codes that restrict housing density), then yes, we'd definitely be cooking flapjacks and it would be awesome!!!

why do you want to disrupt the historic character of my neighbor’s unwashed face and hands

decommodify masks

i mean, if we're talking "if we wanted" territory, we could just all stop paying rent

Remember during Covid days when auto makers responded to a shortage of electronics by continuing to produce high priced cars and cutting back on production of low priced cars?

The landlords would be extremely pwned if housing supply skyrocketed and housing prices fell.

landlord and developer are natural enemies, we have to exploit this

"if we wanted" burying a significant shortage of construction trades labor, but yeah this is on some level true

An 8% rental vacancy rate at a regional level, sustained for at least 2 years.

I live in a country with tens of thousands of vacant properties for a population of 600,000ish and no slowdown to housing construction. This has done nothing to lower housing costs. I think this idea is naive.

When do we do this to the unscrupulous landlords?

outlawing cheap housing isn't leftist just bc not doing that is a freer market. like what are we doing here. you can make this same argument for outlawing marijuana or immigration.

Would banning new grocery stores be a good idea because "trickle-down groceries won't help people afford food"? Obviously not. Let people spend their money to provide the goods we need, and subsidize people who still can't afford them.

If you actually value class diversity, the evidence suggests that building lots of market rate homes and giving poor people vouchers to rent them is a much more effective strategy for preserving it than imposing an unfunded inclusionary zoning mandate.

How is class diversity doing in the current system of zoning? (Very badly)

“Supply and demand” is just a supposed-to-fool-us euphemism for economic extortion.

What is with these dumbasses that are against building housing in the left?

I mean, there is the obvious difference about building homes where people want to live. Just like in 2008, developers are building shitloads of houses... in places like the exurbs of Phoenix, for packaging into loan derivatives. Not houses where people want them to be.