ATLAS · A CLAIM AND WHERE IT CAME FROM

Developers have an incentive to keep rents high overall.

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• ← We are consciously limiting supply in the Seattle housing market.: Why is housing unaffordable in our cities? public-record room
• ← America adds 600k-1.2M immigrants per year, straining limited supply: Why is housing unaffordable in our cities? public-record room
• ← Wallingford will be valuable and therefore expensive no matter what housing is built.: Why is housing unaffordable in our cities? public-record room
• ← New luxury apartments are bought by foreign investors who keep them empty.: Why is housing unaffordable in our cities? public-record room
• ← The previous Government made anti-supply changes to national planning policy.: Why is housing unaffordable in our cities? public-record room
• → There is so much demand and money that prices won't go down.: Why is housing unaffordable in our cities? public-record room
• ← The reason more isn’t being built is zoning.: Why is housing unaffordable in our cities? public-record room
• → Housing shortages are treated as free money by incumbents.: Why is housing unaffordable in our cities? public-record room
• → Deliberate policy turned homes into speculative assets and locked out a generation.: Why is housing unaffordable in our cities? public-record room
• → More housing units on the market reduces prices.: Why is housing unaffordable in our cities? public-record room
• ← Property rights give owners priority access to land.: Why is housing unaffordable in our cities? public-record room
• → NIMBY exists to protect most people's largest financial asset.: Why is housing unaffordable in our cities? public-record room
• ← YIMBY policies economically pollute areas with an influx of investment: Why is housing unaffordable in our cities? public-record room
• ← More housing units on the market reduces prices.: Why is housing unaffordable in our cities? public-record room
• ← Deliberate policy turned homes into speculative assets and locked out a generation.: Why is housing unaffordable in our cities? public-record room
• ← Housing relies on rising house prices to function in the UK.: Why is housing unaffordable in our cities? public-record room
• ← There are many under-utilized spaces for new construction in the Bay Area.: Why is housing unaffordable in our cities? public-record room
• ← People who work in the city can't afford to live there.: Why is housing unaffordable in our cities? public-record room

Every room keeps its own record: its map, its rules, and every judged pair with its votes, downloadable from the room. ← The atlas