• phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think the government should control the price. That just leads to problems. The government should control supply, by changing zoning laws from single family to multi-family. It should also fund building new housing units that can be sold or rented. This is how Singapore solved its housing crisis. We should build denser. There is no reason to have a housing shortage in America when we have so much land. We just use it terribly.

    • andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The Singaporean are forced to do that because of how small their land is. In places where single family unit shouldn’t be a problem (Europe or States), it shouldn’t be forced to make the people to live in a multi family unit.

      Owning an extra house should be punished (financially) to discourage people buying houses only to rent them away.