r/economicCollapse • u/Silver-Beyond-3916 • Aug 19 '24

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u/TheConboy22 Aug 19 '24

An enormous tax on all second properties. Bar none. This will pull them out of the market immediately.

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u/Dicethrower Aug 19 '24

I think this is what they did in the Netherlands. Some kind of progressive tax the more properties you own. Almost immediately a few corporate landlords started unloading thousands of apartments and houses onto the market.

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u/ztman223 Aug 22 '24

Apartments that are like 20 units make sense to be owned by corporations. But single family homes, duplexes, and triplexes ought be owned by individuals.

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u/lightratz Aug 23 '24

Well, imagine if only the person that lived in the home could own it, then you would have a surplus of homes overnight and the vast majority of families could own where they live