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terminalshorttoday at 2:25 AM3 repliesview on HN

Affordable housing is the only type of housing that will ever be built. Builders aren't so stupid as to build products that their customers can't buy. Government intervention is not needed.


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slgtoday at 2:34 AM

I'm not sure if you're intentionally changing the definition of "affordable housing" in an attempt to make the desire for it seem silly or if you genuinely don't know how the term is typically used. But what you're describing is generally referred to as "market-rate housing" and not "affordable housing".

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jrflowerstoday at 5:42 AM

I like this reasoning. If there exists a person or organization that can afford to buy a thing then it is an affordable thing. Now this might sound like a tautology but that’s only because it is

ms_menarditoday at 2:29 AM

And yet, gentrification.

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