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It would be a crisis for renters. Land owners by definition already have a place to stay, but the second you implement price controls you're going to see the rental market go into convulsions. The correct solution is to Just Tax Land.
There you go
Yep, this is already a solved problem.
About 60% of the people in Vienna live in public housing and its one of the best places in the world to live.
Tons of people in this thread are running around coming up with Rube Goldberg schemes of incentive structures and legal frameworks when the problem is really not that complicated.
Well sure, people would stop renting in protest, and you’d have to tax unoccupied spaces at high rates to compensate.
It would crash the real estate market, which arguably needs to die since availability is artificially scarce due to wealthy hoarders.
Doing just this would help quite a lot today. A bunch of properties sit vacant because it's cheaper to just pay the taxes and let the property appreciate than it is to bother with renting.
We had rent control apartments for most of the 20th century and the market was just fine.
There would literally be no rentals except maybe shitty murder sex room hotel rooms.