# Housing is a bitch

**Published by:** [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/)
**Published on:** 2017-02-22
**Categories:** germany, housing, housing-affordable, housing-market, interfluidity, real-estate-market, singapore, steve-randy-waldman, uncategorized, urban-housing
**URL:** https://brandondonnelly.com/housing-is-a-bitch

## Content

I just discovered Steve Randy Waldman’s blog called Interfluidity and, more specifically, a post he wrote called: “Home is where the cartel is.” I am now following him. He starts off by saying that housing is a bitch, which is just him saying that urban housing is a difficult problem to solve. A truism for this audience. He doesn’t profess to have all of the answers, but he does write a thoughtful piece that covers, among other things: the “market urbanist” (supply-side) solution to solving housing affordability, the reasons why the “housing cartel” will never approve of this, and the inherent contradiction between housing as an investment and housing as a sustainably affordable good. He also offers up Singapore and Germany as examples of two very different housing markets. It reminded me of a tweet I retweeted this morning which shows Germany as having the 2nd lowest homeownership rate (45%) among OECD countries.

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