Yeah, that sounds pretty dumb, and I definitely hear a lot about that from my brother who lives in Portland. I'm not too up on prices in different areas, so I don't know how feasible it is to just move a bit further out into less trendy areas. Honestly I'm mostly projecting about the Seattle area, where every single community within an hours drive of Seattle has hit record prices, and prices in Seattle have literally doubled in the past 5 years.
I was simply responding to the words that you wrote in response to my post. It seemed safe to assume that by saying we should blame x, that x was actually the main culprit. If that's not what you meant, you should work on your posts.
Even communists understand that supply and demand have actual effects on pricing, so calling me a libertarian for bringing it up is misinformed.
For example, in San Francisco, there is a finite amount of land that's surrounded by water, so that's one hard limitation. But there are also people who are against high-rise apartments being built in their neighborhoods because they like that their neighborhoods consist only of single-family houses.
If that neighborhood had 1000 residential units instead of 100, I think you would agree that it would help the overall housing supply in the city.
And I said you should blame housing/zoning/rental laws instead of people moving in, because there's nothing you can do about people moving in, unless you want to ban people from moving to your city, which is stupid and ridiculous. If more people want to live in your city than there are places to live, the two solutions are to 1. Create more places to live, 2. Make your city shittier so less people want to live there. Which one sounds better to you?
