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> home prices track construction costs

But construction costs track home price so this doesn't prevent an unbounded faster than inflation growth.



Yes, the correlation is not necessarily causation, but we can add some other data points -- for example the size of new construction has been steadily growing at roughly 2%, which does not suggest any kind of odd explosion in house size as a result of the price going up. Of course ultimately, ability to pay determines the price of housing and also house size.




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