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==Supply==
High housing prices can cause [[homelessness]], [[overcrowding]] and [[wageslavery]]. Commonly-proposed solutions include [[higher wages]], [[lower rents]], or [[universal basic income]]. But these only work if there '''isn't''' an underlying '''shortage''' of places to live.

===Are there enough places to live?===

Help do the [[housing supply analysis]] for your city, country, or the world!

===Ways to increase housing supply===

Ranked from cheapest to most expensive {{x|in terms of resources per home}}:
* Converting some office space into residential space {{x|There is a lot of vacant office space, ever since the pandemic.}}
* Subdividing some large apartment units into smaller studio apartment units {{x|only for areas with a lot of single adults}}
* Subdividing some single-detached houses into duplexes
* Building new multi-unit buildings
* Building new single-detached houses

==Walkability==
In some parts of the world (especially North America), people get stuck between:
* "Do I want to live somewhere central and pay ridiculously high rent?"
* "Do I want to live somewhere remote and spend more on driving / transit?"
The underlying cause is that most homes are far away from most amenities (stores, schools, etc). There are [[walkability|ways to solve this]].

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