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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can see this with housing. Tearing down single-family homes and replacing them with luxury condos is reducing the available stock of homes for people with children. It's basically saying we cater to childless adults. [/quote]

You mean the popups, which typically involved a 3 BR TH going to two or three 2 BR condos?

[b]Well, yeah - if we built more midrise/hirise condos, enough supply to lower the price for condos, there would be less incentive to do those kinds of flips.  They would still become luxury though - old unrenovated 3BR houses are going to become renovated luxury 3BR houses. Only real way to make housing for families affordable close to a desired central city is to get (even UMC) families used to living in condos/apts, as they do in NYC[/b]. [/quote]

I know this is the super trendy arguments among lefties -- that anything that increases supply is good, even if it's luxury condos for the rich. I find it so, so ironic, because this is basically a form of trickle-down economics. It's so funny that people on the left side of the political spectrum have found a form of trickle-down economics they can get behind. Paul Ryan would be very proud. [/quote]

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