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Cities are artificially expensive becuase we ban them in nearly every location in the US, and ban new housing in cities.

It would have been an easy fix 10+ years ago, but as the housing crisis got worse and the working class was priced out, building got a lot more expensive and we have a huge labor crisis in addition to the regulatory crisis.

All solvable, but the political establishment and the political power base (homeowners and landlords) are dead set against solving it.



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