Re:Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year
by Kalium on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @08:59PM
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The point I was attempting to make is that we have and use the tools to control the quantity of rental housing available. Using those tools has not made renting as cheap as owning. Those tools generally help accomplish the opposite. With that in mind, there's perhaps cause to question if "controls over how many" that yardstick suggested will accomplish their aim.
So yes, you're absolutely right, technically true. In practice, they fundamentally don't do what the user wants them to do because that's not what caps are capable of doing. The tools don't work that way.
Technically true, but practically false. Yes, zoning exists in most of the US. And yes, most people have no trouble converting a region to residential zoning. I've known people on both sides, and most of the problems are the opposite - people who want to run businesses in a residential zone. I've yet to meet a single person who couldn't go the other direction.
There's a process to getting approval to build a house/apartment complex. You simply follow the process and get approval. Most of the US is not the Bay Area, Seattle or NYC.