Is avoiding a distorted market more important than avoiding disrupting the lives of people?
“Nobody is entitled to live in a certain area for a certain price.” isn’t really true if they were there first and have established a family or a community.
Maintaining a functioning free market is not inherently a moral goal, although many seem to think it is.
There will always be disruption. Disruption is part of being human. How long do I have to live in a place to declare that I am no longer responsible for maintaining my financial stability and I get to demand free rent from the city? 2 years? 10 years?
So do the developer incentives that have driven urban redevelopment for the last 2 decades. Hence, in part, the glut of luxury apartments and the ever-tightening affordable housing market.
