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Reddit will be the death of me. Why was this downvoted?
5 upvotes, 25 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "Reddit will be the death of me. Why was this downvoted?"
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Anonymous 4w

Did you actually expect Redditors to have a sensible take on real world issues? All those people know how to do is share outdated memes and blow their allowances on Reddit gold

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Anonymous 4w

Building any housing (even just exclusively luxury units for rich people) over time decreases housing costs across the board. This has been studied and is a verifiable fact. (This right here is all you’ll see on Reddit though, that’s like the defacto answer, no nuance, hence the downvotes) However the other side of the coin is that this takes time to even out so only building luxury housing will short term cause a homeless problem that might not be rectified even after the market balances itself

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Anonymous 4w

1. Reddit is a hive mind and once something gets one downvote its over 2. Youre right in everything you said but thing Ive learned about redditors is they dont like when you sound TOO smart. They just want you to be angry

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Anonymous 4w

Because people on Reddit dogpile downvoted posts

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Anonymous 4w

When the wealthy move out of their old housing, it becomes more affordable. Affordable housing is often just older housing.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 4w

Source?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

https://escholarship.org/content/qt5d00z61m/qt5d00z61m.pdf?t=qookug&v=lg/#_page=2

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Anonymous replying to -> big_al_the_riddler 4w

you have won the internet today stranger!

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 4w

I can’t copy and paste tell me the title

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

Research Roundup: The Effect of Market-Rate Development on Neighborhood Rents. (It’s the one done by UCLA)

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 4w

“These findings point to local benefits from market rate development, but they should not be interpreted as an endorsement of market rate development.” Did you even read the paper?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

Quite literally in the same paragraph “nonetheless, the neighborhood level benefits of market rate development are promising and indicate an important role for both market and non market solutions to the housing crisis” then we can go to the other studies grouped into this review and we find that 5/6 papers grouped together show market rate units lower overall prices. Learn to read a whole research piece

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 4w

Can you read? The piece literally says that it does not endorse market rate development.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 4w

I really don’t know how to spell it out more clearly for you. Perhaps you’ll learn more when you do your undergraduate research.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

So when you actually read an entire research piece and not a tag line you actually understand the context of “not endorsing” market rate units. They’re not arguing that market rate units don’t lower overall rents and increase affordability. They are saying it’s not the only end all solution, it can and should be used to compliment other solutions

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 4w

WHAT NEEDS RO HAPPEN IS GOVERNMENT PRICE REGULATION FULL STOP PERIOD FUCK YOU NO DEBATES

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 4w

You’re literally proving my point, it seems you don’t understand how to read research in an academic context.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w
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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

Again, read the whole paper, they spell it out for you

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 4w

I don’t think you’ve read the whole paper. It explicity does not endorse market rate developments. I’m really not sure how much more simplified I can make it for you.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

Buddy, I’ve pulled quotes multiple times that support the argument “building market rate apartments lowers overall rent at all income levels” you have the IQ and reading ability of a goldfish that’s missing half’s its chromosomes

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 4w

If you’re so bad at making an argument that you have to resort to ad hominem, that says it all. Please learn how to read academic research.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

So again just ignoring them quite literally saying market rate units lower all housing prices

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 4w

So again just ignoring them quite loterally saying they are not endorsing market rate development

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 4w

It would benefit you to take an undergraduate research class when you have the opportunity to help you understand these sort of things.

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