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Why U.S. renters are taking corporate landlords to court
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The answer is probably a combination of things. We need to be able to build more houses / duplexes / apartment buildings / etc. That's a fact. There could be ways to help people build their own house (up to code) and cut out the middleman.
If people could easily build their own, do you know how fast property values would drop? Homes in the middle of nowhere should cost nothing.
Homes in the middle of nowhere are already cheap. Making more housing isn't a solution if billion dollar corporations can just buy all of them up for more than asking.
We need housing where people work. Living in the middle of nowhere isn't helpful for 75% of the country.
Corporations buy housing because they beleive its a good investment.
Right now, they're right. But a lot of that is because it's legally hard to build enough new housing to keep up with demand in many cities because most of their area is zoned exclusively for mcmansions.
Housing in the middle of nowhere being cheap if you can't get a good job in the middle of nowhere.
Charge 50% tax on rental properties.
Put the money into a fund that builds more properties in that area.
You can argue that the tax will be passed on to renters, but they're already charging all the market can bear because there's a shortage of property.
You think if people build their own houses, then mysterious billion dollar corporations will buy them up? That's... weird. I don't know how that would be bad. You could just build another one.