• @psychothumbsOP
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    18 months ago

    A landlord who just buys a property and rents it out is doing nothing for the housing supply but obviously a developer that buys a house and turns it into an apartment building is increasing the housing supply regardless of whether they rent the apartments or sell them or whatever.

    Not sure what you mean by government owned housing available for purchase - surely it’s either government owned or being purchased? A big government house building program would be fantastic, but that’s no reason to support keeping restrictions on also helpful private house building.