Its wild how the entire country is experiencing a housing shortage
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2024
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I don't really understand the market failure happening with such a long term housing shortage. By definition there is excess demand for housing right? So it should make economic sense to build more.
When I ask people always say conspiratorial stuff like "they" maximize profit by keeping housing low but even if there was a conspiracy there should be individuals who are not part of the conspiracy who would profit from going against it.
So it has to be either regulatory or funding based, I think. But I don't know of any recent regulations that would cause this nationwide, "zoning" is probably part of it but there was no one timeline for that, it's super local. And funding has been free for a decade and a half and homebuilding has still been slow.
I don't get it.
Where I live, they simply have made it illegal to build any housing since the 60s. It really sucks
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It's not so simple, my mom purchased a property with her divorce settlement and the return on the investment can be good, but it can also be not as good. She remodeled an Oregon property in Salem and sold it for less than cost later. While she did get rent for it before she sold, she could have saved a lot of effort just buying dividend stocks.
Real estate can be a good investment, but it can be a poor one.
This is really easy... Housing should not be an investment.
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