Showing posts with label Art Carden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art Carden. Show all posts
Thursday, June 7, 2018
Art Carden: Red Tape Is What Keeps Housing Unaffordable
Labels: Art Carden, Housing“I’d love to live in San Francisco, but I don’t want to pay $750,000 to live in a closet.” That’s what I tell my introductory economics students when I discuss housing prices. I probably need to update it to $2 million or something like that.
Why? Why is housing so expensive in cities like San Francisco, Boston, New York? It’s expensive because demand is high and rising. It’s insanely expensive to live in San Francisco because practically everyone wants to live in San Francisco.
But that’s only half the story. Housing is also insanely expensive because supply isn’t rising very quickly.
When you have demand rising quickly and supply changing slowly, you get rising prices. So, how do we fix it?
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