On: Rethinking Zoning to Increase Affordable Housing

[sincerecook]

> Trying to manipulate demand with anything is almost always a losing approach.

There goes the entire marketing industry. And taxes on cigarettes.

[shlant → sincerecook]

"almost always". Yes, advertising being the main exception. Kind of hard to change demand for homes.

[sincerecook → shlant]

"trying to manipulate demand with anything is almost always a losing approach"

> The exception being the demand manipulating industry that is used every day by every product being sold to consumers

What would a Venn diagram of these two categories look like.