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only-one1701last Wednesday at 8:16 PM4 repliesview on HN

Just tax non primary residences at a much higher rate. Housing crisis solved.


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kingstnaplast Thursday at 12:36 AM

I think that it should be a ramping rate, the idea being that a 1x landlord should be able to outbid a 2x landlord and so on.

In theory this encourages a sort of spreading effect where at some point the Nth property is too expensive to buy to rent or speculate on, which naturally stops the exponential effect of making land lording your full time gig by continuously expanding the portfolio.

VirusNewbielast Wednesday at 10:00 PM

As someone who generally hates taxes I support this. Taxes at best should be used to discourage externalities and rent seeking.

However, California even tried to repeal prop13 for non primary residence and it failed! So i'm not sure how popular this idea is.

HeyLaughingBoylast Wednesday at 8:43 PM

They already are.

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