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A comment on Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can't Rent It Out. Parent comment

Re:Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can... by lupire on Thursday March 21, 2019 @10:23AM (#19452645)
Some people can't afford the transaction costs associated with buying and selling real estate every year or few. Clamping down on rentals hurts the economically weak.

Your xenophobia is showing, blaming "foreigners". Absentee landowners with vacant properties are a problem. Landlords are a valuable service provider in an economy.

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Re:Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can... by sametmax on Thursday March 21, 2019 @10:26AM (#19452690)
I didn't read any xenophobia in the parent, only anger at speculative investment. It happens that investment firms from china and the middle east are very active.
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Re:Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can... by eru on Thursday March 21, 2019 @11:20AM (#19453341)
What's wrong with them? They are people too.
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Re:Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can... by ahoy on Thursday March 21, 2019 @11:56AM (#19453841)
The folks that live down the block from me are people. A multinational investment firm is not people.
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Re:Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can... by orasis on Thursday March 21, 2019 @11:34AM (#19453505)
Firms are not people.
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