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      16 months ago

      Without the supply of homes going into shortterm rentals like VRBO it would increase supply for people who actually live in that city, travelers can use hotels. Not a full stop fix, but it would increase supply/lower rent.

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        06 months ago

        That would increase hotel prices, making hotel owners purchase more land and build hotels until the equilibrium price is reached

        It’s a short term fix that eventually loses to market forces

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          16 months ago

          Even if it ends in more hotels, hotels fit more people and supply more jobs than the equivalent space in houses. For temporary lodging houses don’t make sense.

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            16 months ago

            We should build large apartment buildings, actually. And I don’t mind temporary housing in an apartment building, I lived in one for a month.