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Households Make Location-Price-Size Tradeoffs

Every household makes a tradeoff between location, price, and size of housing, and these tradeoffs are made differently by different households; planners err by concentrating on size and quality while forgetting location, which is why so much subsidized housing is placed in terrible, inaccessible locations that become poverty traps.

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Speaker

Alain Bertaud

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every household makes a tradeoff between location, price, and size

Source

Alain Bertaud on Cities, Planning, and Order Without DesignEconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:25:59 AM

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