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How Americans Voted Their Way Into a Housing Crisis (www.bloomberg.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Amoxtli@thelemmy.club to c/economy@lemmy.world
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https://archive.is/20240908131824/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-08/an-american-affordable-housing-crisis-built-by-local-democracy

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[–] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Idk, I just skimmed it again. It definitely seems like it's focused on a woman's book about the impact the electoral process has on "affordable homes".

A new book from Jerusalem Demsas explores how local elections, community meetings and other democratic structures brought on a national shortage of affordable homes. 

That said, I agree with all the general points you mentioned