Those things also add to the exorbitant cost of housing. It's not investors who are causing houses to cost 300 a square foot in my city, it's lack of buildable land, contractor availability, licensing, residential zoning laws. All those things equal cost... some of those things could be fixed with less regulation.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You do realize it's a rich people hoarding land/houses problem, not a building laws problem right?

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Well, it's both, but I agree with you that rich fucks and corpos running rentals and airbnb's is a much more prescient and addressable issue.

[–] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, food can be made cheaper with less regulation too, that doesn't mean that's the right answer or even a good answer. Most of that stuff you mentioned has been in place for a long time. The more recent blowup in cost isn't directly related.

[–] books@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

You do realize it's possible that it's more than one thing that is contributing to the cost of housing, right? .. and not just landlords, despite what lemmy keeps telling everyone.