• iopq@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Landlords follow market pricing, so if there’s enough housing the prices go down. Landlords are not the reason rent is high

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      10 months ago

      Landlords are not the reason rent is high

      If being a landlord is profitable where do you think that profit comes from? Logically landlord’s need to be making housing more expensive so they can get their cut.

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        10 months ago

        Return on investment. Not everyone has money to buy a house. Home prices being high keeps rents high. Increase housing supply and it will resolve the issue

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          10 months ago

          And where does this return on investment come from?

          To put it another way: if a law was passed that owning a property you don’t live on is going to become illegal, there would suddenly be a lot of cheap property on the market.

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            10 months ago

            It comes from owning an investment. The stock market has similar returns to the real estate market.

            But the real estate market doesn’t need to keep going up. For example, after the increase in supply of housing in Austin, the prices are down 16% off the 2022 peak

            If this could be replicated for the whole country, it would improve the situation immediately.

            I don’t understand the law you’re proposing. Would it apply to hotels? Do you need to live in the hotel you own? Apartment building? Hot spring resort? Ski lodge?