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Basically every government policy over the last 20+ years is in the direction of increasing house prices and rents. The good news is that if every policy is cu
by HPsquared 3y ago
Basically every government policy over the last 20+ years is in the direction of increasing house prices and rents.
The good news is that if every policy is currently at "increase prices", any change will result in a decrease. Surely we must be approaching the peak now, what other things could they possibly do to restrict supply / increase demand?
(I guess the climate goals leave a lot of freedom to continue tweaking)
- seydor 3y agoMaybe if renting is shown to be bad for the environment or sth
- zo1 3y agoSomething something, you will own nothing, right?
- gs17 3y agoI'd expect it to be worse for the environment than owning. My apartment has an electric heat system older than myself instead of a modern, efficient heat pump because I rent (to be fair, I'm not sure how the math works out on keeping the inefficient but working current HVAC system over replacing it, environmentally, but if it breaks, the cheapest possible thing that fits will replace it). I can't improve the insulation because I rent. I could never have something like solar panels because I rent. These investments would save energy, but utilities are my responsibility so my landlords haven't been interested. The most I can do as a renter is replace lightbulbs with LEDs. Plus, every time we're forced to move we end up making a lot of trash and burn a lot of fuel moving things.
- baal80spam 3y agoThe ruling class will do nothing to decrease real estate prices because it has skin in the game - they do NOT want them to decrease.