The only lasting path to affordability is for the supply of energy, housing, and other goods to increase faster than demand.

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• Subsidies against fixed supply, such as energy and housing, drive prices up. JCJohn H. Cochrane11 Oct 2026energyhousing
• Survival can be guaranteed without a universal basic income, by making housing, food and above all energy dirt cheap. GHGeorge Hotz29 Jun 2023energyhousing
• 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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