Comment by Aurornis
2 days ago
> That's quite an extreme political take.
We're in a weird timeline when pointing out that dramatic tax increases on the inputs to home building will increase the price of homes.
> A more humble basic economic theory question would be:
> If you ban large institutional investors from buying homes, and then you ban small institutional investors from buying homes. And only owners directly can buy homes, no renting. Would that be good?
There's nothing humble or basic about this question because it's so unrealistic that it could never possibly happen. Ban renting? What?
It's a gedankedankexperiment man