[matsemann]

It gotta be enforced. In a huge city with huge apartment complexes it might be hard to know what's going on. But in my small city with 2500 people and mostly houses, you would instantly know if someone bought a house in your neighborhood and didn't live there. And people would probably report it, as they want to keep their neighborhoods nice. But yeah, this might not scale.

And while this keeps the prices of homes lower than not having it, it gives some weird incentives. For instance it's more profitable for the city to zone more of the cabin properties, as they can sell them to developers for much more. And developers rather build houses they can sell to a larger market (people in the whole country), instead of building a house and hoping someone will move to the city soon. These things would probably also happen without the living restrictions in homes, but the restrictions haven't solved these issues.