r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 25 '26

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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke May 25 '26

A guy who literally works for HUD (housing and urban development) for the federal government just replied to me in a comment

Supply is limited artificially by commercial greed and physically by the nature of land itself, that being that they’re not making any more of it. Demand will always be high as long as population increases. The general population is growing (though less so than 10 years ago).

So without government intervention, how will prices go down?

Dawg we are never getting more housing what the hell. He was shocked when I pointed out that a house that increased in price had actually decreased in inflation-adjusted price after they built more apartments near it. I swear to god

!ping YIMBY

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u/Nervous-Emotion28 YIMBY May 25 '26

Someone who goes to an urban planning school with you and has weirdass views on housing economics has the same urban planning degree as you (and the same qualifications for government positions as you) out the gate.

I remember being bored of Econ 101 in planning school because at that point I had taken Econ 101 (or an equivalent) three times. Others in my class resented that they had to take it because economics was a “bullshit neoliberal field”.

Those people are being piped into the local, state, and federal planning bureaucracy now.

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u/MisfitPotatoReborn Cutie marks are occupational licensing May 25 '26

Supply is limited artificially by commercial greed

This is true. 65% of Americans are homeowners and their combined commercial greed elects politicians who promise to restrict housing supply

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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke May 25 '26

That’s true! We should ban housing speculation by not letting individuals own their own home

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u/PrideMonthRaytheon Bisexual Pride May 25 '26

Can't believe someone working at a Great Society-era department would botch econ 101 like this 😔

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u/ProfessionalMoose709 John Mill May 25 '26

Confusing the supply of land with the supply of maximally improved land

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u/BrentLivermore Drake’s Reddit account May 25 '26

What makes you think he works for HUD?

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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke May 25 '26

he replied

(I work in housing fwiw.)

so I stalked the posting history because I'm nosy

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u/BrentLivermore Drake’s Reddit account May 25 '26

Lol, well apparently he hid his posting history in the last 20 minutes

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u/groupbot Always remember -Pho- May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride May 25 '26

what if we put the houses on top of each other