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They're not all going to sell though... Maybe? $55 trillion is rather a lot though...
With that said I don't think it will reappreciate if you get rid of the landlords and limit total number that can be owned? There will be an overabundance of houses? No matter what happens under those circumstances the houses wouldn't reappreciate to the same value.
Suppose my house is currently worth $600k. The government guarantees that value, then crashes prices by 50% (presumably by some means other than creating new stock, as that would be time consuming and expensive). Now a house near me that used to be $800k is worth $400k. I could then sell my house to the government without having to bother cleaning it up, doing repairs, getting a real estate agent - all the things that add friction and cost to home selling - then turn around and outbid all the people that previously couldn't afford that kind of house because $400k was their ceiling because I have a ton of house money (
) to play with. Plus, I would be incentivized to help bid prices back up because profits on home sales are taxable unless they're invested in a new home. Maybe there would be some sort of statutory price ceiling that prevents bidding wars from driving prices up, but that would have to come with some sort of scheme for choosing from among equivalent offers.
In the absence of price controls, there would probably be a lot of hermit crab shell swapping as existing homeowners get a massive incentive to upgrade their current homes.
I don't really see the solution fitting in with the existing housing market dynamic; we'd need to fundamentally change how homeownership worked.