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jenniferhooleytoday at 1:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

Or we just wait for automation and robotics to make building housing much cheaper and the free market system to fix things - which 5 years ago I assumed was too far out, but with all the advances in the sector, seems like we might get significantly cheaper building costs within the next 10 years or so.


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inigyoutoday at 1:36 PM

The cost of housing mostly isn't in the building. If it was, we'd just build smaller and have houses. But you can't because the land costs too much.

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gchamonlivetoday at 1:38 PM

How about a bit of empathy. People don't have 10 years to wait for necessities, those vulnerable are suffering today