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If we get the Bun-ification of every package manager and language ecosystem that would be an awesome thing. This is a great trend.

They aren't saying affordable housing isn't needed. Just that the method for making housing affordable shouldn't be trying to make the current housing supply cheaper.

And from this is where you get "rent-control is a terrible idea". Essentially: trying to artificially drive down housing prices in any way is generally inadvisable if you can just build more housing.

Sure that's technically an opinion, but it's one based in facts, and it certainly doesn't have "zero evidence".

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-does-economic-eviden...

What does economic evidence tell us about the effects of rent control?

Rebecca Diamond discusses short term and long term effects of rent control. In the long run, the costs outweigh the benefits.

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