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Essays on housing prices

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Sep 10, 2026ACX

Royce On San Francisco

Scott Alexander shares excerpts from Josiah Royce's 1886 history of 1850s San Francisco, showing that many supposedly modern urban problems—housing prices, crime, family breakdown, NIMBYism, boom-bust cycles—existed in frontier California.

16 min read 2,398 words

May 10, 2023ACX

Highlights From The Comments On Housing Density And Prices

Scott Alexander responds to criticism of his post on housing density and prices, refining but largely maintaining his argument that increased density can raise local prices.

51 min read 7,868 words

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