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2 thoughts on “Incentivizing

  1. gyp

    Developers build more homes, which we desperately need in the midst of our housing shortage. (Also I’ve never heard of a developer neglecting to build a necessary water line!) We all live in homes that were “developed” by someone.

    Without more homes, we’ll quickly see exactly what “unaffordable housing” looks like. (Maybe Brent can revisit his Economics 101 textbook and the chapter on supply and demand.)

    I wonder what the response in Asheville would
    be if we asked the owners of single family homes to sell their homes at “affordable” rates and forgo the massive asset inflation that makes for the most rent-seeking and speculative money making in our economy?

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