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Housing needs to not be an investment; it needs to not be /attractive/ as an investment.

Maybe that means massive taxes on the property if the owner isn't using it as a residence for at least 1/3rd of the year (to allow for snow-bird dual-home setups that are popular).



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You can directly confiscate. They did it in my country and they were called communists; most properties were never given back. Wealthy people should be punished. Everybody should be poor, they said.

One reason there isn't much political will for this in Ireland: https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/nearly-one-in-five-tds...

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