• iopq@lemmy.world
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    7 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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      7 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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        7 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.