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[โ€“] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Building/zoning laws are not the problem, they're just a symptom of the real problem. The real problem is that the economic system we are part of doesn't create value by building things, it generates value by denying things.

The largest impediment to affordable housing is the fact that it would detract from the value that current property owners created via artificial scarcity. The zoning laws and building codes are just one of many tools that property owners use to create value without ever having to invest in anything.

[โ€“] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Right, they're not the core of the problem, but they're the thing you're most likely to run into when you want to live outside the paradigm of "taking up a big expensive chunk of land for yourself and forcing everyone to drive a bit further by pushing them farther away".