Auntie Oedipus on Nostr: The US could solve its housing crisis tomorrow by banning investment properties, but ...
The US could solve its housing crisis tomorrow by banning investment properties, but that would also crater the market, alienating the only constituencies politicians/the economy care about: homeowners and investors. When approached from this vantage, they reveal themselves to be two sides of the same coin, a propertied class wielding their assets to the detriment of society writ large.
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