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    16 months ago

    Exactly, banning or severely limiting short-term rental housing ie VRBO and foreign land/property purchases Id wager would make a huge impact on righting the boat.

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        16 months ago

        Without the supply of homes going into shortterm rentals like VRBO it would increase supply for people who actually live in that city, travelers can use hotels. Not a full stop fix, but it would increase supply/lower rent.

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          16 months ago

          That would increase hotel prices, making hotel owners purchase more land and build hotels until the equilibrium price is reached

          It’s a short term fix that eventually loses to market forces

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            16 months ago

            Even if it ends in more hotels, hotels fit more people and supply more jobs than the equivalent space in houses. For temporary lodging houses don’t make sense.

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              16 months ago

              We should build large apartment buildings, actually. And I don’t mind temporary housing in an apartment building, I lived in one for a month.