Things don’t get cheaper for no reason.
Things don’t get cheaper.
Housing got cheaper in Japan. They went from the most expensive housing in the world to the cheapest in the industrialized world
They did it by removing barriers to building housing, and incentivizing building homes. The downside is that rich people can’t profit as much off housing, which is a non-starter in many other countries
Can’t call it a downside tbh
Housing is also a sort of money pit in Japan because abandoned houses often aren’t considered worth repairing. Old Japanese houses tend to end up with lots of issues, to the point that it is often cheaper to bulldoze and build new. There are plenty of stories of people buying an abandoned house for like $50… But that’s only the initial property cost. It was so cheap because everyone knows that they have to actually invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in bulldozing and rebuilding before the property will be habitable again.
The downside is that rich people can’t profit as much off housing
Downside ?
Will only get cheaper if there is large scale deflation, and then nobody will be able to afford a house because everyone will be unemployed.
Or very high and progressive multi-property taxes 🫣
Make it less economically attractive to own multiple houses (ban Air B&B, high tax rate on ownership beyond primary residence, ban corporate ownership of certain types of home, etc) and maybe we’ll see some shift.
There already is higher tax rates and higher mortgage rates on investment properties. It’s still worth it for small time investors.
Sure. Make 'em even higher. Plus all the other suggestions.
and if that still doesn’t work, i’m sure public flogging would have an effect.
I am brave enough to support public flogging of landlords.
Yeah, where are the insurance skeptics?
