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cantaloupeyesterday at 7:11 PM1 replyview on HN

The academic consensus is that there is a housing shortage, not a surplus. Perhaps there is a local surplus in undesirable areas, but that isn’t true in cities or nationally.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/make-it-count-measuring-o...


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nemomarxyesterday at 7:26 PM

Austin and Texas in general have less housing restrictions than other places wrt zoning and regulation, so they could plausibly have a surplus. You can only really speak locally about any of this because location determines the market