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These are policy decisions being made that make it so it is harder to purchase housing near my job or where I grew up, as well as being net detrimental to economic growth (and the growth of wages and output which lowers prices).

This is backwards. If society gets more expensive because we no longer oppress certain groups in the same ways, then it should have been the case that people from these groups were the ones getting cheap housing in the past since they were “buying” a shitty social experience.

But that’s not the case. It was straight white families who got cheap housing while at the same time holding minorities back.

I presented a broad example that society is changing. I did not associate a variation in pricing due to the oppression or lack thereof of certain groups.

Housing has become significantly more expensive relative to wages, which is where the problem lies.