Using houses as houses and not hotels increases the number of houses and decreases demand?
Holy shit that's a useful study.
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2026
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I get what you are saying, but I think it is a tad superficial of a read on it.
I don't think anyone involved in this study truly believed that they wouldn't find this data when they crunched the numbers, or believed that "just" finding evidence for their hunch would be a scientific and political waste of time.
What this does is provide evidence in no uncertain terms for this phenomena, of course that doesn't change how you or I see it, but it does meaningfullly change the power balance a tiny bit in rhetoric when studies like this come out.
Agreed. Just because "everyone knows it" is no reason not to follow up with scientific study. It is good to be able to back up assumptions with data, and occassionally they find some very interest data points, or even find that "everyone was wrong".
Plenty of moneyed interests claim the opposite.