“Since pre-pandemic, the income needed to afford rent has increased by 31.5%,” Zillow’s chief economist, Skylar Olsen, wrote yesterday.
  • Naboo_calls_for_aid@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year 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.

    • iopq@lemmy.world
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      1 year 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.