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title: "Joule Munic For coastal city housing costs, the solution is to reform..."
date: 2023-09-19
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# Joule Munic For coastal city housing costs, the solution is to reform...

*September 19, 2023 — Comment Archer T. Ships replied to Joule Munic's comment.*

Joule Munic For coastal city housing costs, the solution is to reform zoning laws to allow sufficient new housing to be built to meet the demand.  However, I don't know how to persuade people to do that.  I suspect the cities will have to suffer collapse from other sources of dysfunction (high crime, crumbling infrastructure, government cronyism) before there will be enough political will to make reforms. I don't think there's anything that will reverse population decline either.  However, I'm optimistic that humans will merge with AI/robots in the relatively near future and intelligent life won't be constrained by biological reproduction.