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Their wordsTo real estate professionals, slowing growth or declines in rent are often signals to stop building new housing.
Their wordsMaking housing widely affordable today through the removal of development regulations would require allowing extremely low quality housing.
Our reading
Housing subsidies cannot scale to the size of the problem, and the YIMBYs are right to say so.
Their wordsWhile there are certainly some benefits to these programs, YIMBYs are right to doubt that housing subsidies alone are a scalable solution to affordability challenges.
Their wordsAs is the case with most businesses, suppliers in the housing industry generally set prices based on market conditions and what buyers or tenants are willing to pay, rather than on production costs.