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by Workaccount2 286 days ago
Correct, you do that by building more housing, which naturally makes investments in property less appealing.

There is no other approach. You can follow these paths of taxing, regulating, minimum waging, but none of them create more houses and all of them just push the same air around the inflated balloon.

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But taxing investment homes does, because it incentivizes the divestment of houses. Investment homes account for 20%+ of the market.

Whether this adds pressure to rental market depends on how many SFH renters convert to buyers - we certainly would be buying at modestly lower prices.