> Handing out vouchers will increase the demand causing prices to rise. If you give people $10,000 to buy a house, congrats! You just made houses $10,000 more e

> Handing out vouchers will increase the demand causing prices to rise. If you give people $10,000 to buy a house, congrats! You just made houses $10,000 more expensive. To be fair, I think you are glossing over the fact that only handing out said vouchers to lower-income people will cause their buying power in the market to proportionally increase relative to wealthier buyers. However, you are absolutely right that this strategy will increase demand without increasing supply, and overall drive prices higher. I should clarify that I don't think it's a good idea; in fact, I think it's an absolutely absurd idea for precisely this reason. How anyone can suggest making housing more affordable by taking actions that will obviously make it more expensive is beyond me. This sort of thing probably only makes sense in the eyes of wealthy urban "liberals" who want to appear virtuous while maintaining their property values, and from far-left perspectives with no qualms about making life worse for the middle class to achieve their social justice-oriented goals for a relatively small fraction of the population. > Do you live in a skyscraper? Does anyone want to live in a skyscraper? I don't. I'm not sure of the relevance here.