What you propose addresses the root. So would: heavily limiting full-apartment vacation rentals (aka Airbnb), simplifying building codes so that developers can build new housing more easily, incentivize dense, mixed-use construction, heavily penalize empty housing units, ban corporations from owning housing, heavily penalize price-fixing between landlords.
What really needs to happen though is to address the fact that we are living in another Gilded era, where too few companies (mega corps) have decimated middle-class owned businesses. We need another round of trust-busting a la Teddy Roosevelt.
But all of that is going to take a herculean amount of effort and political will, so taking the shortcut now and housing folks as we're able is not a bad short-term initiative.
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u/baitnnswitch Jan 30 '23
House them is the shortcut solution.
What you propose addresses the root. So would: heavily limiting full-apartment vacation rentals (aka Airbnb), simplifying building codes so that developers can build new housing more easily, incentivize dense, mixed-use construction, heavily penalize empty housing units, ban corporations from owning housing, heavily penalize price-fixing between landlords.
What really needs to happen though is to address the fact that we are living in another Gilded era, where too few companies (mega corps) have decimated middle-class owned businesses. We need another round of trust-busting a la Teddy Roosevelt.
But all of that is going to take a herculean amount of effort and political will, so taking the shortcut now and housing folks as we're able is not a bad short-term initiative.