The building process in Los Angeles specifically is so terrible. For a developer for it to even make financial sense to break even, they have to build luxury units. They do that deliberately because people say their quality of life or the character of the neighborhood will be eviscerated if there's more housing available. In Vienna, Austria, 65% of all homes are actually public housing. The government offers many benefits to develop housing and then basically have the rent exist specifically to either further develop more public housing or to maintain the housing itself.

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