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Reply to "We need homes. A lot of homes. Not just affordable, but also middle-income homes."
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] TIL that Tokyo, which is on nearly every list of the world's most expensive housing markets, is the model we should be following for more affordable housing.[/quote] I recommend you discover the world of knowledge! It is a reasonable rival for knee-jerk tribalism. Tokyo Prefecture has TRIPLED housing stock 1963-2013 (and continues to add more and more housing — making it easy as a matter of public policy to build more). http://rstudio-pubs-static.s3.amazonaws.com/361409_dcd5637049764634986dd04f150452e0.html Greater Tokyo is much the same (same source, among many others). Washington DC had a population of 750,000 in 1960. Today it has a population of not quite 700,000. There has been no material growth in the housing stock in DC (for most of the 90’s, there were less than 300 building permits / year for new residential). [/quote]
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