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Strategies for creating such housing often trend toward subsidies, cheap and distant land, density bonuses, special financing, and lower construction quality. But each of these strategies has problems.
Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
Peter Calthorpe
Ethereum’s proponents claim that a key advantage proof of stake offers over proof of work is an economic incentive to play by the rules. If a node validates bad transactions or blocks, the validators face “slashing,” which means all their ether are “burned.” (When coins are burned, they are sent to an unusable wallet address where nobody has access to the key, rendering them effectively useless forever.)
Why Ethereum Is Switching to Proof of Stake and How It Will Work
technologyreview.com
If we consigned the production of affordable housing to subsidized builders whose regulated apartments were rented via lottery, as happens in high-cost cities like New York and San Francisco, we would never come close to achieving the scale of production to fix what was, in reality, an across-the-board housing shortage.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
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