As long as housing is an investment, there has to be a housing crisis.

100% Agree

I’m not sure how banning landlords works though. Like everybody has to own their own house? What about apartment buildings or people living somewhere for the short-term? Or are you think like where the government is the landlord for everybody - sort of like Vienna?

When you say “doing the former” what specifically do mean?

Empirically, building more housing does lower the cost of rent. See Austin for an example. But yeah there is more that could be done for sure.

No the idea is that it is very distinct from property. It is just the value of the land. Any “improvement”, be it a house, a factory, or an apartment building is untaxed.

Fuck landlords. There should be a 100% tax on the value of land

How has no comment in this thread yet mentioned Georgism or Land Value Tax? That is the solution to Landlordism

Google georgism

100% Land Value Tax redistributed as UBI por favor!!!

capitalism is celebrating

capitalism is not a person

This is why we need Land Value Tax, redistributed by UBI.

So disappointing that nobody in this thread has mentioned Georgism

100% Land Value Tax pleaseeee, way better than guillotines

There is a way to get rid of landlord’s insane unearned income without a violent revolution, while also making our cities more lovely places to love.

A 100% tax on the value of land, redistributed as UBI and government services. Basically the people become the landlords.