The gov't had a crappy track record when it comes to making the market behave as it wants. Especially when the reasons are moral and not universal. How about

The gov't had a crappy track record when it comes to making the market behave as it wants. Especially when the reasons are moral and not universal. How about we just build a lot more housing and let the chips fall where they may. Shouldn't even need to tax empty housing, either, if we build enough then the market can fix the rest pretty easily. The whole reason we have a housing problem to begin with isn't capitalism, it's government restrictions on building. Urban grown boundaries, zoning, you name it.