• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    25 days ago

    Yeah I don’t know if you’d do that permanently, maybe just a 10 year law for the duration of the price guarantee? The point is to prevent people from selling their existing house at a high fixed rate to the government then just buying many of the low rate houses. If average people did that at a large scale it’d be a problem.

    The main problem I can see with this is people selling to the gov, buying a cheap house after the crash, then pocketing the rest. Maybe that’s fine as an economic stimulus? Inflation could be a problem though. Fixing the housing issue might be worth it anyway given that inflation can be controlled other ways but homelessness without fixing the housing issue can’t be.