Housing Supply
topic on 4 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
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4 statements about Housing Supply, every show
Housing affordability requires supply reform, not demand subsidies
“So I think the solution, like we do have an affordability crisis, no question, but the solution is not to induce demand because if you induce demand, What happens? You have the same fixed amount of properties. You're just making prices go up. So the solution i…”
Sharma: US annual home construction matches 1950s levels despite 50% population growth
“The number of new homes that America builds today is the same as a year, is the same as it was in the 19 fifties and sixties. Even though the population is 50% higher.”
Calacanis: China has 50 million excess homes capable of housing 150 million
“China has fifty million homes ahead of schedule. They have fifty million additional supply that can house a hundred fifty million people.”
Collison: Tokyo kept housing costs stable through minimal supply restrictions
“Tokyo has over the last couple of decades, been an improbable, well, not especially improbable, but has been such an enormous economic success story. And, you know, you had the boom and the bust and the supposed stagnation of Japan in the kind of early ninetie…”