So no vacation homes at all?
And what constitutes an individual? A family unit? Or can you own two houses when you’re married, one per adult?
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kalkulat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s my opinion that housing is so basic a need that no house should be allowed to use for a gambling chip. The ‘housing market’ needs to be broken.
Only individuals may purchase individual homes, and must agree to occupy them as their primary and only residences until they sell and vacate them. (Live-in landlords included, e.g. boarders.)
As part of the deal, they must first find another individual buyer (under the same terms) for their present home.
(Futher stipluations needed, but none that permit violation of the above principle. )
ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 8 months ago
kalkulat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Needs discussion. I’m more concerned for kids -never being able- to buy a home. “Owner-built”, no problem.
onion@feddit.de 8 months ago
Also a lot more housing co-ops
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
I don’t think speculation is a big factor, actually. Rentals don’t earn money without renters and they don’t appreciate nearly fast enough to make up for the lack of income.
In my country at least there’s just measurably less houses than there needs to be.
FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world 8 months ago
depends on where you are. i bought a new house 3 years ago and within a year the value of my house had increased nearly 100k.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
That’s one hot market.
Most of the time they don’t do that, though, and there’s a good chance if you had rented it out the wear and tear would not have reduced that value very much, so there’s still not a lot of “opportunity cost”.
FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world 8 months ago
to be fair it’s leveled out since. it’s still up that much, but didn’t continue the meteoric rise.