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The neoliberal approach here would be just to tax people and if government wants to have affordable housing units they should just buy them like anybody else. Not create this ridiculous approach where we put a drag on home-building during a home-building-shortage.
It's insane - IZ basically lets the landlords and comfortably landed gentry ignore the housing crisis while their home values climb, and meanwhile expects the builders to provide affordable housing gratis while they're also providing market housing for people who aren't poor-enough to qualify for something subsidized. It's completely backwards.
Not the builders ... the developers. There's a difference.
You mean like construction contractors? Those people either directly or indirectly work for the developers. It's not speculators and landlords being punished people, it's people trying to get housing built, in a housing crisis.
Yes, I know that most of the people running the development industry are dead-eyed reptiles doing it for profit, but still: the shit they're looking to profit from is building homes people live in. Something the government should not be adding extra taxes upon.