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Or, since housing is a basic human need and not meant to be an investment, legislate against investment companies holding housing
by babelfish 5y ago
Or, since housing is a basic human need and not meant to be an investment, legislate against investment companies holding housing
- weeksie 5y agoWon't make a dent in the prices, but you could certainly spend political capital passing legislation like that.
- babelfish 5y agoWhy not? If you cut out 15% (OP) of the demand, the price of the supply should fall
- oh_sigh 5y agoFood is a basic human need - do we all need to go back to subsistence agriculture, or can we defer some of that work to corporations?
- babelfish 5y agoNo, but the country could certainly stand to do more to prevent farm consolidation by legislating against larger farms acquiring smaller ones. https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/bigger-farms-bigger-problems https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/bigger-farms-bigger-problem...