Having private actors take on housing development risks is better than expecting the government to build millions of homes.

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• Providing people with stable, home-like housing makes real progress toward ending homelessness, while cutting that spending drives homelessness back up RSRichard Stallman17 Sept 2026governmenthousing
• The era of cheap borrowing has ended, making large-scale government housing investments difficult. JDJerusalem Demsas26 Aug 2026governmenthousing
• 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. BPBrian Potter2 Apr 2024housing
• 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. DHDaniel Herriges4 Jan 2023housing
• 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. DHDaniel Herriges29 May 2024housing

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