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Liberalizing the housing market is a slow process that will be heavily contested politically and in courts, so it won't lead to an instant explosion of the hous

• munk-a 5y ago
  The market can generally move faster than politics - as soon as it becomes common knowledge that the housing market will be opened up you'll see a modest drop in prices, when some legislation is passed you'll see a larger drop in prices... if and when that legislation survives the court you'll see even more of a drop. This issue isn't that the laws will move too quickly but that the open intent to pass those laws will spook the market and cause a panic - which is actually a lot worse if you want to deflate the market because any aide or support you'd want to provide is going to come in well after the market has already responded. And, to return to my main point above... when that happens people with a lot of free capital sitting around are going to be able to game the system and make a bunch of money off of it. So wealth inequality will increase and it's likely a lot of folks will be in an absolutely terrible spot.
  • seunosewa 5y ago
    Making it easy to construct new buildings - let's call it liberalization - isn't a binary thing. You can do it a little bit, a lot, or anywhere in-between. If you want home prices to go down, you do it a lot. If you want to stabilize things just a little bit, you do it a little. For this reason, "we don't want the prices to fall too much" doesn't work as a reason to choose banning foreigners over liberalization.