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Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Cutting development costsdoes not cut housingprices, because prices are… JH Jonathan Hopkins — holds since 2026-06-30 A house is built by trades that barely coordinate with each other, which is what makes housing cheap to design and almost impossible to redesign. A house is built bytrades that barely… BP Brian Potter — holds since 2024-04-02 Affordability is not a property of a building; it is a price set in a transaction, so there is no such thing as affordable housing, only affordable prices. Affordability is not aproperty of a building… DH Daniel Herriges — holds since 2023-01-04 Building a lot of housing in an expensive city will not lower rents there; it lowers them in the cheaper places that were absorbing its spillover demand. Building a lot ofhousing in an expensive… DH Daniel Herriges — holds since 2024-05-29 Building materials are already about as cheap as civilisation knows how to make them, so cheaper materials are not where housing savings will come from. Building materials arealready about as cheap… BP Brian Potter — holds since 2024-04-02 Building more housing in a city raises its local prices, because density is what people are moving there for. Building more housingin a city raises its… SA Scott Alexander — holds since 2023-05-01 SA Scott Alexander — turned since 2023-05-19 Chinese factory workers are more motivated than American ones because what they want has been getting cheaper against their wages while American housing has not. Chinese factory workersare more motivated than… MH Molson Hart — holds since 2025-12-25 Data centres mostly take farmland, of which America has too much, rather than housing land, of which it has too little. Data centres mostlytake farmland, of which… AM Andy Masley — holds since 2026-05-02 Deregulating enough to make housing broadly affordable would mean legalising housing of the quality nobody is willing to defend. Deregulating enough tomake housing broadly… JH Jonathan Hopkins — holds since 2026-06-30
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