(08-02-2024, 08:25 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(08-02-2024, 07:59 AM)copycat Wrote: I’m not against people owning rental properties and not suggesting people should not own them.  It is corporations buying up whole neighborhoods and taking those homes off the market thus preventing homeownership.    I have no issues with corporations buying and building apartments.  Call me old fashioned but I believe homeownership is the cornerstone of the American dream.  You are right, it is a supply and demand issue as these corporations are scarfing up homes, lowering the supply, raising the cost of ownership and crushing that dream.

And, again, the best way to increase the supply of houses is to have people, or corporations, make a ton of money owning houses.  Everywhere they have put restrictions on the ability to make money owning a house, the cost of housing has gone up, not down, because no one wants to build more houses.   Government control of the free market usually leads to unintended consequences.  The incentive to build more houses, and thus increase supply, is achieved when people and corporations make money by doing that.  Government intervenes, and they no longer make money, so they no longer build houses, and that doesn't do anyone any good.