• iopq@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Return on investment. Not everyone has money to buy a house. Home prices being high keeps rents high. Increase housing supply and it will resolve the issue

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      11 months ago

      And where does this return on investment come from?

      To put it another way: if a law was passed that owning a property you don’t live on is going to become illegal, there would suddenly be a lot of cheap property on the market.

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        11 months ago

        It comes from owning an investment. The stock market has similar returns to the real estate market.

        But the real estate market doesn’t need to keep going up. For example, after the increase in supply of housing in Austin, the prices are down 16% off the 2022 peak

        If this could be replicated for the whole country, it would improve the situation immediately.

        I don’t understand the law you’re proposing. Would it apply to hotels? Do you need to live in the hotel you own? Apartment building? Hot spring resort? Ski lodge?