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Re:California's housing bill SB 50 has died in the state Senate by Gibbon1 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @08:35PM (#22198148)
My thought on that is prices reflect the ability of people to pay principal, interest, taxes, and maintence. Lower the property tax rate and prices just go up. Difference is taxes go to pay for public goods and services. Principal and interest do not.

Prop 13 benefits corporations, long term property owners, and people that inherit property. At the expense of renters, new home buyers, and beneficiaries of public goods and services.

Re:California's housing bill SB 50 has died in the state Senate by rconti on Friday January 31, 2020 @01:41AM (#22199616)
Precisely true. Give a mortgage interest deduction, or lower interest rates? Good news! You can afford more house! _and so can everybody else_