• SCB@lemmy.world
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    A lack of housing is very explicitly our problem. Houses that are empty are not unowned.

    Until housing is no longer seen as an investment, which can only happen if we are allowed to build sufficient housing, housing will continue to go up in value, and thus more people will invest

    Anyone who sees their home as their “nest egg” is part of the problem.

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      Until housing is no longer seen as an investment, which can only happen if we are allowed to build sufficient housing

      It can happen through legislation.

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      So you build 500,000 new homes and blackstone or other companies buy 450,000, meaning you only actually generated 50,000 new homes. No, corporate interests are the vast majority of the problem with housing. Your neighbor renting out their house after buying a 2nd isn’t the issue.

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        1 year ago

        Assuming some large capital group buys all those homes, they’re going to do it to try to make money off of it.

        More supply means lower prices

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          Constraining supply, either by not building, or by buying everything available, means higher prices, so they don’t have to sell as many houses to make the same revenue.

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            1 year ago

            Gonna go ahead and throw out that people whose job it is to make said revenue saying that selling more makes them more revenue makes this not track