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[quote=Anonymous][quote] Anonymous wrote: Y’all complain about the homeless crisis. Y’all complain about a housing shortage. Y’all complain about proposed solutions. Rinse and repeat. Do you really think people living in homeless encampments or on city streets or off somewhere in wooded areas will have the wherewithal to live in nanny flats in someone’s basement or a tiny house in a backyard? Where would the rent money come from? And who is willing to rent to people with mental health and/or addiction issues? It’s far more likely that affluent people will put tiny homes in their yards and rent them out through Airbnb. Or their failed-to-launch adult children will move into the backyard. None of this is solving the housing crisis. Here’s what would: [b]Go back in a Time Machine so Congress could have taken steps to prevent corporations from commoditizing housing. Prevent Airbnb in urban tourist areas. Only allow citizens to purchase real estate and land. Put caps on how many properties one can own. [/b] Those are real solutions. Packing more people/families in tiny spaces is a fast track to shantytown.[/quote] Those are good ideas. However, the area around the DMV does not have a lot of corporations commoditizing housing (maybe you could give some examples of it in this area?). Airbnb is not a thing in our area as we are suburban and not touristy at all out here. There is a fee on noncitizen purchases already (has been for some time) and maybe it is not enough to deter them so that is probably a good one to look at. I'm not sure the caps on how many properties one can own will do much. Can't people use things like LLCs and just have different LLCs for each purchase (or separate ownership between marital partners or some such thing)? [/quote]
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