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> Why exactly is being rich and pro-affordable-housing hypocrisy?

Because some would claim they are the reason there is an affordable housing problem... I'm not one of these people though. Again, I believe markets set prices.




"I'm not one of those people" - yet you still call hypocrisy?

The organizations in the article, backed by wealthy supporters of affordable housing, do believe that the market sets rents; the policies that they advocate are a) allow low-income people to get housing outside of the market, and b) to change market rules to encourage higher supply and lower market prices.


Markets set prices within their power, but housing is far from a free market. Bay area prices are largely a result of regulatory capture.




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