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It is one less house people can buy.

• AnimalMuppet 5y ago
  And one more they can rent. If I buy a house, don't live in it, and don't rent it, that's limiting supply.
  • whydoibother 5y ago
    It is one more house they won't be able to buy and build equity with. Meanwhile, they will have to pay more than what the mortgage is to rent (you are extracting some kind of profit, after all) and have nothing to show for it at the end.
    • AnimalMuppet 5y ago
      By that logic, if I buy a house and live in it, I'm also constraining supply, because it's one more house someone else won't be able to buy. And, sure, it's true, in a nitpicky kind of way; they won't be able to buy it. It's also so absurd that your definition of "constraining supply" is clearly useless.