“prohibit sitting on apartments to raise rent” which idk what it even theoretically means, and limiting AirBnBs, are both means of constraining housing.
Only for it to be snapped up by corporate interests and not handed to the families that actually need it.
We need a list of all of the families and single people looking for a primary residence, build new housing, and just give it to them first. No buying allowed.
Ehhh, you’ve got the right spirit, but that won’t happen lol.
What would be useful is banning, or at least limiting, speculative real estate ownership. A liveable home being unoccupied for no productive reason is a massively arrogant thing for a society to allow.
Rent control is absolutely not the solution. Building more is the solution.
How about regulating all the big companies - prohibit sitting on apartments to drive up rents, limit Airbnbs,that sort of thing.
How would limiting housing get more housing, exactly?
Where does he say “limiting housing”?
“prohibit sitting on apartments to raise rent” which idk what it even theoretically means, and limiting AirBnBs, are both means of constraining housing.
prohibit sitting on apartments to raise rent - prohibit leaving apartments empty to keep rent high
Limiting air bnbs - keep housing for permanent resident rather than short term rent
You don’t need to keep a short term rental to not limit housing. Otherwise hotel rooms that can be upwards of $300 would count as houses.
Gonna need to see some citations on that happening, and reasoning as to why someone is not allowed to not rent out their property.
If you limit AirBnBs you’re just directly limiting housing, and there’s no other way to even begin to phrase that.
Hotel rooms won’t ever count as houses because you don’t own them, the hotel does.
Only for it to be snapped up by corporate interests and not handed to the families that actually need it.
We need a list of all of the families and single people looking for a primary residence, build new housing, and just give it to them first. No buying allowed.
Ehhh, you’ve got the right spirit, but that won’t happen lol.
What would be useful is banning, or at least limiting, speculative real estate ownership. A liveable home being unoccupied for no productive reason is a massively arrogant thing for a society to allow.