Other strategies to discourage the usage of properties as investment have existed at various times ... Things like squatters rights laws have been deployed for

Other strategies to discourage the usage of properties as investment have existed at various times ... Things like squatters rights laws have been deployed for this purpose in some parts of the world at various times (Netherlands for example had quite large movements where the youth would occupy empty homes owned by rich investors in order to take advantage of favorable (to the squatters) laws -- which discouraged folks from sitting on unoccupied investment properties home at least at some historical points in time