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You don't have a right to buy a house at a particular price. If someone else is willing to pay more the seller should have the opportunity to sell it to them.
by harryh 9y ago
You don't have a right to buy a house at a particular price.
If someone else is willing to pay more the seller should have the opportunity to sell it to them. These laws privilege the desires of some buyers over both the desires of sellers and non-native buyers.
- mantas 9y agoNot every sell is equal if you look at it like at social contract. A family buying a house is different from investors looking to park their money. It looks like ban will apply to non-residents rather than non-native. If you're non resident, why do you want to buy? Rent to check out the city, get residency which you'd need to live in a country anyway, then buy.
- Frondo 9y agoWhy not? Housing is a human right, and lots of US cities have all kinds of regulations around affordable housing. I think we're not far at all from "you do have the right to buy a house at a particular price," we just dress it up in fancier language.
- sliverstorm 9y agoWhy do non-citizen buyers deserve anything? It's their country, they don't have to let us in.
- IncRnd 9y ago> You don't have a right to buy a house at a particular price. I never said that I did. > If someone else is willing to pay more the seller should have the opportunity to sell it to them. These laws privilege the desires of some buyers over both the desires of sellers and non-native buyers. And if the areas in question had been rezoned to increase supply instead of reducing demand, that would have privileged the desires of a different group of people. All laws privilege a certain set of desires over other sets of desires. Why shouldn't people who live in an area have the right to decide how they want to collectively structure their lives and economics?