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Terrible poverty? Well much less poverty than in about 95 percent of the planet so everything is relative.

Now, the market cannot solve a problem that is linked to human nature. Humans like living in dense areas rather than on the top of mountains, so space will be more and more expansive as density increase. Nothing unusual. Density also brings more jobs and more commerce so this is a cycle that goes with it.

This being said if you care nothing about living in a modern civilization it is perfectly possible to live far away from cities with very minimum expenses and a lot of land. Thats just not what people want.

>>ekianj+(OP)
Only if you’re already well off, or have an income stream. No jobs in the middle of nowhere.

>>ekianj+(OP)
How precisely can a person who isn't in the top half of the population move from where the majority of work is to an area where jobs aren't and how are they to afford even what you describe as minimum expenses.

Then there are things like medical expenses, debt, family members in need of support.

>>ekianj+(OP)
OP makes it very clear cheap space where it matters, where people need it: "NIMBY" and "neighborhood character".

>>achow+g4
Its never going to be cheap where it matters. Look at Tokyo, there are a lot of new appartment towers built every single year but prices dont go down because demand is always high. At best you can stabilize prices but cheap is unrealistic.