@davegraney@odden56@wozzak Regulations that ensure the safety and quality of homes is a good thing.
Regulations that limit the *quantity* of homes is a bad thing.
@GavinBrx@SatoshiWolf@Chris_E_Qld_Au Sounds like an advertisement for Land Value Tax. What share of land value should the land owner get when all the increase in land value was created by others?
@estherzelda0514 Israel internationalises its actions by purporting to act on behalf of “Jews”, not Israelis. That implicates me - a Jew who lives on the other side of the world. When genocide occurs in my name I feel bound to say “This is wrong”.
@AvidCommentator How does our current migration rate affect housing when our population growth rate has been slowly declining since 1950?
(figures from the ABS)
@purplepingers New luxury apartments lower prices for everybody via moving chains: https://t.co/VcOueYi3mo
A vacancy tax is a good idea. A Location Value Tax on all property owners is better though��a great way to fund a UBI.
@three3knots@peter_tulip If you don’t want to live in an apartment, don’t live in one. But some people do like them. Why forbid people building them?
I don’t like suburban houses but I don’t want to forbid them.
@sam_ess604@bryankav123 If *all* land Is upzoned, doesn’t the “expected value of future development” *fall* on the majority of land, making most land cheaper?