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Re:Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling ... by bigbluedots on Monday October 10, 2022 @02:50AM (#33148531)
One solution would be to discourage the use of housing as a vehicle for investment, perhaps by requiring that in most cases the owner lives in the property.
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Re:Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling ... by herbst on Monday October 10, 2022 @03:26AM (#33148714)
What about people that prefer to rent for whatever reason? Or have to because their financial situation? These options would become more rare, likely more expensive.
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Re:Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling ... by astrange on Monday October 10, 2022 @04:00AM (#33148942)
That would make it much harder to move, because you end up owning two houses when you do that. Also, some people like renting and have enough problems finding rental housing.

Literally you just have to build more housing. It's fine to say this.

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Re:Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling ... by red_admiral on Monday October 10, 2022 @04:03AM (#33148955)
I personally like the Georgist take on this one (Lars Doucet on substack has a good explanation).

The basic idea is to tax not the house, but the underlying land value.

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Re:Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling ... by dagw on Monday October 10, 2022 @05:09AM (#33149330)
One solution would be to discourage the use of housing as a vehicle for investment

Sweden does this through various policies. The main outcome is that finding a rental apartment is virtually impossible.

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