Americans hold a lot of personal wealth in homes and therefore are incentives to protect their asset. This can be accomplished through zoning and organizing against low income or high density housing. Ensuring that wealthier people move into your neighborhood ensures that the asset continues to appreciate.
Jerusalem Demsas
Homeownership works for some because it cannot work for all.
We cannot have plentiful housing and continually appreciating housing assets for existing home owners.
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… imagine a game of musical chairs. With ten chairs and ten people, everyone will find a chair when the music stops. That will be true even if one of the players is on crutches. With nine chairs, someone will inevitably be left out. That’s when individual life circumstances begin to predict homelessness.
Housing crushing policies: - Making rooming houses illegal through zoning - Slowing building through: - environmental impact bureaucracy - lawsuit legal challenges -