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The one thing everyone needs and almost no one lets get built nearby.
means Shelter and the buildings that provide it — homes, apartments, and the structures people live in.
from From 'house,' tracing back to Old English 'hus,' a word shared across old Germanic languages for a roof over one's head. The '-ing' turns the solid noun into an abstract one, shifting it from the building itself to the whole business of sheltering people — the supply, the market, the problem.
- zoning origins
- US zoning began partly to segregate neighborhoods by race
- global shortfall
- UN estimates 1.6 billion people lack adequate housing
- supply paradox
- existing homeowners often vote against new homes nearby
- biggest asset
- for most households, a house dwarfs all other wealth