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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by klipt on Thursday May 02, 2019 @02:42PM (#19811132)
Well by design, LVT discourages having land be the majority of your home's value. E.g. Single Family Homes are fine in the outskirts of the city where land is less valuable, but LVT encourages building up the more valuable parts of the city (e.g. downtown, next to the subway station).

In both cases (SFH on less valuable land, condos on more valuable land) the land shouldn't end up being the majority of the value, since with condos the land value is effectively split among all units in the building.

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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by SilasX on Thursday May 02, 2019 @03:13PM (#19811537)
Yes, I was agreeing with that and pointing out that the defense of "at least they have the gain in home value" wouldn't apply to the high LVT case. Whether it's good for pricing to work like that is a separate question.
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