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by eru 2652 days ago
Houses provide rental income. Whether you get that as money (by renting out) or consume it in kind doesn't matter.

At the most successful, this proposal would leave rents the same, but lower house prices. Ie it would artificially give people rich enough to own a house an especially attractive high yielding instrument.

In practice, it will be even worse.