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A housing absorption rate and upzoning thought experiment

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Cameron Murray
Mar 21, 2023
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A city has 100 active new housing projects.

Each project is owned by a different developer who is staging their project in batches of 20 new dwellings. Some of the stages are individual apartment buildings, some are new townhouses, and some are lot subdivisions for detached homes.

Each project has been designed to be carried out in 20 stages. There are …

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