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Amadou_WhatIWant

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  • The absolute state of online housing discourse

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  • When you say "doing the former" what specifically do mean?

    Empirically, building more housing does lower the cost of rent. See Austin for an example. But yeah there is more that could be done for sure.

  • Landlords do not provide housing

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  • You would only pay tax on the unimproved value of land. You pay no tax on everything built on it. So an empty 1-acre lot next to an apartment building providing 100 homes on a 1-acre lot would both pay the same taxes.

    So landlords would earn a profit but they wouldn't earn rent (in the neoclassical sense).

    Its almost like anybody who wants exclusive access to land (for their housing or their business) has to pay society for the right to use it. And if a business (like an apartment) tried to pass on costs to customer (their renters) without providing more or better services, they are essentially just admitting their land got more valuable, so they would just pay more in land value tax (thereby providing more funding for UBI or public services)