Dublinben: "How do you lower the cost of housing in desirable places?"
You: "You don’t, you can’t build your way out of these kinds of problems"
Me: "Yes, you can. Tokyo and Houston are perfect counterexamples."
You: Does a combination of moving the goal posts on Houston to being about Houston's lack of livability and not prices as well as decides that somehow Tokyo's housing prices declining is a counterargument to building being a solution to high prices?
Tokyo is quite affordable in terms of rent and prices haven't been increasing anywhere as dramatically in other similarly classed world cities. If this source is to be believed, it's 48% cheaper than SF: https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RPS_EN-PROD/PROD000000000049...
You: "You don’t, you can’t build your way out of these kinds of problems"
Me: "Yes, you can. Tokyo and Houston are perfect counterexamples."
You: Does a combination of moving the goal posts on Houston to being about Houston's lack of livability and not prices as well as decides that somehow Tokyo's housing prices declining is a counterargument to building being a solution to high prices?
Tokyo is quite affordable in terms of rent and prices haven't been increasing anywhere as dramatically in other similarly classed world cities. If this source is to be believed, it's 48% cheaper than SF: https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RPS_EN-PROD/PROD000000000049...
I'll again point here, but there are plenty of other resources that will Tokyo's success at combating high housing prices: https://marketurbanismreport.com/blog/tokyos-affordable-hous...
Or here: https://www.ft.com/content/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3...