This is one of those HUH! I never thought of that! kinda things. I found it interesting anyway. And then in the comments people bring up a million MORE questions that I've never thought of.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/upshot/popping-the-housing-bubbles-in-the-american-mind.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 February 2017 14:21 (seven years ago) link
I read it and wondered how much housing in San Francisco/New York/London/etc would need to be built to drop the prices lol.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 11 February 2017 14:51 (seven years ago) link
this is probably one of those things like: what if there were no war?
nobody is going to treat a house like they do a car.
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 February 2017 15:55 (seven years ago) link
Rent4lyfe
― Jeff, Saturday, 11 February 2017 16:10 (seven years ago) link
but...infrastructure was designed for the number of houses/people there are. or were. long island is already a parking lot. nimby!
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 11 February 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link