make a profit

Richardson said he isn’t looking to make a profit through usage fees for the event venues.

The race does not make a profit - the number of runners is capped because of limited space on the track - but race director Shankara Smith says she will “keep doing it for as long as the runners want to do it”.

“The primary purpose of our limited housing supply should not be for Wall Street to make a profit,” he said.

Ticket scalping is illegal in India, and experts say that while it's possible that it's happening anyway, it's also likely that legitimate ticket-holders are selling theirs through resellers to make a profit due to the massive demand.

In short, there are downsides to all of the standard housing delivery ideas: changes to the planning system only do so much, social housing costs money, and private developers need to make a profit.