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Their wordsThese shifts in price without any physical change to the housing stock are by far the biggest part of the affordability story. They dwarf the impact of actual new construction.
Their wordsAffordability for the masses will live or die not by what we build this year or next, but by what happens to the price of homes that already exist, in which the vast majority of people live.
Their wordsBecause affordability is not, and has never been, an intrinsic quality of a building.
Their wordsAdding chairs to the game—any kind of chairs—will tend to make the competition less cutthroat for the chairs already in play.