In theory there's a third position, market first. But in practice housing markets are regulated (or not) to optimise for providing housing or profit. People who claim to care about "free markets" as an end in themselves are using this as an excuse to optimise markets for profit.
It's particularly relevant to housing that according to what Adam Smith actually wrote, what "free markets" were meant to be free of was rents, not regulations.
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The reckons about housing policy I posted yesterday were inspired by an interview on the Dystopia Now podcast with housing rights advocate and former San Francisco local politician Dean Preston;
https://sites.libsyn.com/566555/the-astroturf-agenda-with-dean-preston
Current Affairs interviewed him back in 2021, a couple of years after he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors;
#podcasts #DystopiaNow #housing #DeanPreston #CurrentAffairs
