• Cosmicomical@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Then this is my take:

    • no taxes on first home
    • some tax on second home
    • taxes on any home past the second grow exponentially, doubling for each additional home
    • order of the homes is always from less expensive to most expensive
    • same is valid for companies
    • for companies owned by other companies, all the houses owned are considered as belonging to the mother (root) company, so there’s no “creating matrioskas to that each own a single house”

    Obviously offices and factories are not habitable space and therefore not counted in this system.

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      1 month ago

      Housing shouldn’t be an investment asset, especially in a for profit system, or you’ll just make BlackRock again.

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        1 month ago

        It shouldn’t be an investment asset.

        Homebuilding is still a business though. You still need someone to risk their money, assemble the materials and crew, complete the project and find a buyer for it.

        If there’s no demand for a product no one will build it. There’s always going to be demand for a mythical product that can’t be built. Like cheap housing.

        I just spent $2,000 on a handful of wood, shingles, and siding to patch my house up. like 1/10th of a single wide trailer. That’s just the materials i’ll be providing the labor which would normally cost $30-$60 hour.

        So it shouldn’t be an investment asset, someone still has to invest in it being built, so that a homeowner may live there.

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            26 days ago

            Ya in an ideal world. Currently the system runs by me fixing up a house and losing $50,000 of my hard earned money so a young family can get a cheap house. I’d preferred if the government compensated me for my contribution to the housing crisis?