> If you despise that thinking, then we need to regulate the housing market to discourage seeing housing as an investment as we see it today
Quite the opposite, regulation of the housing market rarely ends well. There's quite a few countries that can speak to the horrible deadlocks that occur when regulation suffocates the housing market.
There's nothing particularly wrong with investment per se, now if you make the market so regulated such that there's no competition, you're destroying any kind of forces that push the price down, or if you make the investment so costly the prices go up to compensante.
Heck, there's even countries where the regulation was so insane it was far better to hold an empty home than to actually rent it out.
Quite the opposite, regulation of the housing market rarely ends well. There's quite a few countries that can speak to the horrible deadlocks that occur when regulation suffocates the housing market.
There's nothing particularly wrong with investment per se, now if you make the market so regulated such that there's no competition, you're destroying any kind of forces that push the price down, or if you make the investment so costly the prices go up to compensante.
Heck, there's even countries where the regulation was so insane it was far better to hold an empty home than to actually rent it out.