The creepy agenda behind Australia’s proposed “bedroom tax”
Kit Knightly
An Australian think-tank has proposed a radical solution to the supposed “housing crisis” – tax people for unused bedrooms.
The thinking is simple: There are many people, mostly older couples whose children have left home, living in family-sized homes with one or more bedrooms sitting empty. If the state were to impose a tax on unoccupied bedrooms, whilst abolishing stamp duty, they will incentivise those people to sell their family homes and downsize, thus freeing up homes for young families looking to buy.
But is that really how it would work?
Of course not.
What will happen is that newly incentivized sellers will bump up against hedge funds and private equity firms who are willing to pay 10-20% over market price. I covered this back in my 2021 article What’s REALLY behind the war on home ownership?
The incipient “Great Reset” is a multi-faceted beast. We talk a lot about vaccine passports and lockdowns and the Covid-realated aspects – and we should – but there’s more to it than that.
Remember, they want you to “own nothing and be happy”. And right at the top of the list of things you definitely shouldn’t own, is your own home.
The headlines about this have been steady for the last few years, but it has picked up pace in the wake of the “pandemic” (as has so much else). An agenda hidden on back pages, behind by Covid’s meaningless big red numbers, but perhaps no less sinister.
It has been progressing steadily since then. By December 2022 private equity firms were accounting for almost 30% of home purchases in the united states. BlackRock et al. are projected to own around 40% of American homes by 2030.
It’s no different in other countries around the world. Canada is following the US pattern, whilst private equity already own an estimated 37% of single family homes in Germany.
In the UK, 2024 saw private equity firms invest £1.5billion in single family homes, with Blackstone buying over 4000 of them alone. According to the New York Times, US investment firms are already Madrid’s biggest landlord.
Australia notionally moved to prevent this, imposing a two-year ban on foreign investors purchasing property earlier this year, but that doesn’t apply to Australian private equity firms.
All the while, the press are publishing articles like this one…
Renting vs. buying: Is renting for life really that bad?
Or this one…
10 Reasons Why Renting Could Be Better Than Buying
The agenda is pretty obvious. And if the bedroom tax becomes a reality, we’ll all know why.
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The bedroom tax is a United Kingdom welfare policy whereby tenants living in public housing (also called council or social housing) with rooms deemed “spare” experience a reduction in Housing Benefit, resulting in them being obliged to fund this reduction from their incomes, move home, or face rent arrears and potential eviction by their landlord (be that the local authority or a housing association). The policy was introduced as part of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 passed during the Premiership of David Cameron.
Does the editor no? or has he even checked,????? that the United Kingdom did the exactly same thing 12 years ago under the Tories after the manufactured banking bailout.
“Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so fast. When you’re a teenager you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, “What happened to my twenties?” Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You’ll call it a procedure, but it’s a surgery. Your sixties you have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn’t matter because you can’t hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two in the afternoon, lunch around ten, breakfast the night before. And you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate in soft yogurt and muttering, “How come the kids don’t call?”, “How come the kids don’t call?” By the eighties, you’ve had a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can’t stand but who you call mama. Any questions?” … Mitch Robbins
City Slickers
1991
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“It’s uncommon, in our modern world, to have land — not a house or a cabin, but the land itself — as home. In her beautiful love letter to Desert Bighorn Sheep, Eating Stone, Ellen Meloy reminds us how to begin to rehome ourselves:” Max Wilbert
A Love Letter to My Old Home
Mar 07, 2025
https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/a-love-letter-to-my-old-home
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“As a wise man recently said to me, “All roads lead to the yurt … and that is no joke.”
So come on in!” Michael Sliwa
‘My Wife and I Live In a Tiny Home
Michael Sliwa
February 21, 2014
https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/cc-wife-live-tiny-home/
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The Evolution of One Man
Michael Sliwa
January 1, 2017
https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-evolution-of-one-man-wcz/
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Culture
The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit
Michael Finkel … book – The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
August 4, 2014
https://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit
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Into The Wild Book by
Jon Krakauer
https://christophermccandless.info/into-the-wild-book/
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“When Brandt arrived on Vancouver Island, there were eight men attempting to live as hermits on the banks of the Tsolum River—members of the Hermits of St. John the Baptist. They lived within walking distance of one another, and 23 kilometers from the town of Courtenay. But Brandt, like Merton, yearned for even more solitude. With the bishop’s permission, and the help of a donation from a Milwaukee brewery owner, he purchased 5.6 hectares of second growth forest on the Oyster River for CAN $9,000.In 1970, he moved his hermitage 12 kilometers north to this new location. Over the years, the other hermits on the Tsolum River drifted away—some got married, some left for other religious communities. Only Brandt remained on Vancouver Island, alone in the woods, praying, reading, living a hermit’s life.”
The Oracle of Oyster River
Brian Payton
September 11, 2018
https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-oracle-of-oyster-river/
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Kids In America
https://youtu.be/80TfG7C9azA
Derek Diamond thank you for the good links in your comment.
YOU WILL OWN NOTHING.
Digital chains, removal of cash……
There’s an IN YOUR FACE agenda.
And the sheepie class, still remain asleep.
Sheriff departments carry out foreclosures. The sheriff and his deputies enforce Blackrock’s ownership. Without them, they cannot take possession. Some Sheriffs and deputies have mortgages too. They have a central role in “own nothing and be happy”. I do wonder how fifteen or twenty deputies are going to seize the homes of 300,000 of their own townspeople, including their own, so they can give them to 80+ year old men based in NYC, London and Monaco who have never seen them and never will though.
I can’t imagine a sheriff’s deputy saying, “We’re going to sleep on the sidewalk tonight, son. You see, some man printed some money and bought our house with it after bribing our politicians to make it too expensive for us to own.”
I thought our public servants are heroes.
I regret to tell you no.
Your wet dream about Police standing up as front soldiers for your laziness and cowardice is and will forever be a Leftist’s pipe dream.
“The Police should go against the power first, before I go”. You think you are smart and that the Police had not figured out that a long time ago? “ 😂 “.
Last line was sarcasm, champ.
Let them control where and how you live and the next thing they will snatch are your “unused” organs. The state and the filth that operate its levers are the enemy of all mankind.
Here we go again.
You dont own your home, just like your car, you are the keeper.
When you buy the house, the new original title with your name in all caps is sent to the land registry. You thereafter have to pay the principal and interest, all taxes, maintenance, and all bills. When you decide to sell, you pocket the gain if any.
The crown as trustee of your estate (all caps name) pays nothing, is in control of the original title and uses the property as security on the country’s debt, borrowed from bankers who created the loans from fresh air.
The crown doesnt mind you making a profit from the sale because the increase in value is still in their favour.(They now own a property which has increased in value).
In other words, you own fk all. Anything you buy is in your corporate fictional identity name and is part of a debt security that keeps Britain from bankruptcy.
The Bank of England is not an independent body, like all Central Banks it is controlled by private investors, hidden from view by banking secrecy and the Official Secrets Act. They have taken ownership of all property by having the right to create money, a thing that has no real value. They then gave the perception that money has value and purchased everything of value from bits of paper with numbers on. Through taxation and interest they have control of everything and everyone. They are the cause of wars and agendas that have slaughtered tens of millions of people.
Our government is not in Westminster its in the hands of City, the ECB and Wall St.
and……………….?
or?
“Renting vs. buying: Is renting for life really that bad?”
Renting vs. building equity: is living under neofeudalism really that bad? 🤑🤑🤑
That being said, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to eliminate property taxes on middle-class homes occupied by older adults who are living on a fixed income. 🤔
Maybe worth a mention that here in the UK, afaik, but certainly in England a tax on surplus bedrooms has been imposed on all tenants in receipt of Housing Benefit, whether the property is privately owned by a landlord or part of a social housing association’s housing stock. Deductions are made to your other benefits (you need to be on benefits to qualify for HB). Problem is for many rests on the very paucity of one bed properties being available for rent. Despite promises, this Policy has not been reversed.
Refugees! Thats why so many refugees arrives by boat to England/UK. Its planned so you can rent your empty bed out to a refugee and cash in from the public coffers. 🤑 .
Its money man.A win-win for UK, the Queen and You. Arent you happy?
I see the allodial title theme has come up again in the comments, as to whether one actually owns property or land when one’s name is on the title deeds.
Similar to the argument about car ownership, the ‘registered keeper’ vs ‘owner’ argument often mentioned in the UK. In the case of vehicles, the owner is the person who paid for the vehicle and has the invoice to prove it. The registered keeper is responsible for ensuring it is taxed (road tax) and paying any parking fines it may accrue on the roads plus providing the name of the driver in the event of speeding fines. The owner is not necessarily the same as the registered keeper, lease (personal contract hire) cars and company cars will be owned by the leasor or the employer but the registered keeper will be the leasee or the employee respectively.
The argument about allodial title in practice is a hypothetical one. For all intents and purposes those who think that they own their property, actually do own it. They can live in it and enjoy private property legal rights, or sell it, or rent it out and can still pass it on or the proceeds of it to their inheritors upon their death. If there is no mortgage then all the proceeds upon a sale are theirs to spend, save or buy another property.
If there were any plan to steal property or land through claiming that owners do not have allodial title then the controllers would not be concocting schemes such as the bedroom tax or ever more restrictive energy certificates to effectively tax people out of their homes. There would be no need for it, they would simply reclaim all the land and property by decree.
This allodial title argument seems to be used by those who do not own property or land to make themselves feel better, all the while complaining about those who have bought property or land, yet according to the allodial title proponents the buyers don’t own it anyway, so why complain? Meanwhile, those who do not own their home still pay rent to someone else to keep a roof over their heads or else live in a caravan or on the streets.
Has anyone considered that the allodial title theme has been sown by the controllers to discourage the so-called awake from buying property or land?
Who reading this, having bought property or land is going to give it away to a stranger for free? After all if you don’t own it, why not? I (and millions of others) will happily take it off your hands. I rest my case.
‘I’m not leaving. We have spent years and half of our income in that time maintaining this home, and we’ll defend it with our lives.’ Somebody somewhere said that once. Electricity and running water will be sabotaged for sure, and people will have to figure out how to keep livestock and what they can grow. But former slaves survived after 1965 with no homes and food insecurity and people have survived the total destruction of war, so it can be done and endured, that we know.
Populations for whom high levels of transience is second nature are good for 1) “flexible” labour markets 2) low levels of community cohesion 3) cultivating no affection for a particular place. In the battle of “somewheres” versus “anywheres”, they’re firmly in the camp of the latter.
The recent obsession with “de-cluttering” is part of the same agenda.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-lha-housing-benefit-cap-uturn-elderly-vulnerable-tory-government-latest-a8018996.html
Theresa May tried the same thing.
I have started a new company #homeatix
#warm #real #yours
#choices #your choice
https://open.substack.com/pub/grubstreetinexile/p/homeix-homatics-the-revolutionary?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=l1oox
Check it out, mods off guardian editors, please interview me. I am actively building Alternatives to WEF dystopia. Tho resist we must act.
Roger G Lewis
Long time commenter and OFF guardian reader.
https://grubstreetinexile.substack.com/p/heretical-references-on-the-global
Roger
Aug 24, 2025 6:59 AM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-lha-housing-benefit-cap-uturn-elderly-vulnerable-tory-government-latest-a8018996.html
Theresa May tried the same thing.
I have started a new company #homeatix #warm #real #yours #choices #your choice
https://open.substack.com/pub/grubstreetinexile/p/homeix-homatics-the-revolutionary?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=l1oox
Check it out, mods off guardian editors, please interview me. I am actively building Alternatives to WEF dystopia. Tho resist we must act.
Roger G Lewis Long time commenter and OFF guardian reader.
https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/23/the-creepy-agenda-behind-australias-proposed-bedroom-tax/#comment-731553
Cant you just explain what you do in a few practical sentences instead of using several A4 pages to explain which site and on which link we can see and read bs?
And basically it’s all being done with stolen money. TPTB are buying up property & industries using money controlled and created by a giant international racket which now controls govts. We need a plan of organization and action to oppose it. I really think we have enough people who understand or partially understand what’s happening. It’s the Plan that we lack.
The sheriff’s dept carries out home foreclosures. Will they carry out the great taking? Can they?
Actually, in some areas the Sheriff’s Dept refused to do any more home foreclosures. And in my area the entire police force didn’t impose the covid rules. I know because I refused the mask and when a store manager called them while standing right next to me she was deflated in a hurry.
You know The Great Taking could be directed against the cabal.
Same old, same old: pump and dump. In the 80s councils sold off the (publicly owned) housing stock. Now it’s all going back to that same same old bunch of crooks. When will we ever learn?
David, iirc, in the 1980s UK the Thatcher Government introduced “Right to Buy” which allowed long term tenants to buy their homes at well below market value. One effect was that in rural (more desirable) areas the social housing stock largely disappeared, as it did in certain City areas that were in the process of being gentrified. Secondly, although Local Authorities were promised that the money raised from these Sales would/could be reinvested into new “Council houses” this never actually happened. A third impact was that after a few years, Councils up and down the land were left managing “sink” Estates, prone to crime, antisocial behaviour and housing disrepair and a high tenancy turn over. Then Blair came along and it got much worse as Councils were financially incentivised to divest their remaining housing stock to ALMOS (Arms Length Management Organisations) basically a consortium of Banks and Financial institutions.
Complete coinkidink of course.
So where do we elders find the available stock of suitably small houses? Australia has recently upped its immigration numbers and the other numbers – homeless people – are also growing quickly.
Smart cities anyone? I think they are trying to take our houses and herd us into digital prisons.
Can Australia start a woke BS tax? That would bring in money by the giant dumper loads.
Take energy: Down Under is loaded with coal, gas and uranium but is fiddling around till Sidney burns with grid scale solar and giant lithium batteries for all nights plus cloudy periods.
Or immigration, health care, the CCP influence etc. This Eye of the Five is firmly shut from sleep or hangover.
“Energy” is not a “woke” issue. I think you are a paid troll.
BS. Energy is of course a woke issue, climate catastrophism and preening yourself on your Green morals by driving in your “Just Be Kind” T-shirt an electric car bearing LGBT stickers and “Death to TERFS!” is the consensual, antiauthoritarian order of the day
No it isn’t. You are a troll.
There have been renting vs buying articles for a long time, but this proposal is chilling, akin to requiring everyone to get a fake jab for a fake virus. It goes straight to our liberty and freedom. Any libertarian would be aghast at this, but not surprised. Again, unless we can somehow get freedom and liberty on the radar, any that we have will keep slip sliding away. We’re being ruled by lunatics.
Describe a good ruler, one you want to be ruled by. Seriously.
Why on earth would I want to be ruled by anyone? Seriously? Do you?
Yes, more interest payment on usury loans one way or the other, and the equity firm get the saving over time down in their pockets.
Yes its all over the world. In my area the bank and utility firms are trying bit by bit to mob people to sell their property more often that they want.
Before they tax the spare bedrooms of the owner-occupiers, they should super-tax the vacant AirBnBs, as well as any developer’s vacant land that they will sit on until land prices soar a little more, thereby keeping a lid on housing availability.
Australia hasn’t much in the way of business, let alone industry. It’s the land of houses and holes (mining), plus cows and sheep. As per usual, the small fry will foot the bill of the inert, bought and paid for government, while speculators will get a free pass.
Spot on Veri Tas.
Saw a news item on the ABC recently, about a young para$ite who had 150 homes in his portfolio.
Turd$ walk among us.
Yes, no talk of taxing the second (plus) homes of those with negatively geared property portfolios.
Australia is also called a rent-seeking society.
A ‘think tank’ hey?
We know they never bite the grasping claws that feed them.
It’s time for the $mug Middle Cla$$ to DROP DEAD.
The smug middle class is the problem? Well then, I’m sure you are cheering on this latest scheme to fuck over that middle class once again. While you may think you are only talking about the uber wealthy here, or the “management class,” the middle class encompasses a hell of a lot of people who are NOT the smug wealthy but have somehow managed to hold on to enough to maybe own their own homes. Those same people may have enough saved up that for a while, they may manage to survive without government support either. Those same people may even have enough to help other family members. Our owners do not like that, AT ALL.
But the blame game must go on, mustn’t it? Blame the Boomers. Blame the Whites. Blame the Men. Blame the Women. Blame the Gays. Blame the Blacks. Blame somebody, anybody but the real owners of the world as you’ll never touch them and they’re orchestrating most of the blame game as well.
As for being forced to rent out a room, or being taxed or somehow charged if one refuses, some of us have seen this type of thing coming since the covidiocy. Same mentality as that crap – penalize ordinary people who refuse to comply with the latest idiocy, tell them it’s for their own good, threaten them with penalties they have no hope of paying, and take their shit as the final punishment.
The $mug Middle Cla$$ are the handmaidens/ footsoldiers of the Ruling cla$$.
They have a vested interest in perpetuating GREED.
Whatever. Keep your focus on that smug middle class while the owners cheer on just that sentiment. Tell yourself that once that middle class is completely eliminated all will be wine and roses, and all needs will be met by a now wholly benevolent ownership class. Once those dirty plebes give up their pathetic little dreams of taking care of themselves and others when they can do so, all will be oh so much better. By the way, can you possibly share whatever you’re smoking that gives you that sense of total certainty and virtue? This middle class plebe just ain’t seeing it yet….
People in my class have never ever even considered buying a house. That was always for rich people. Nothing new.
Actually poor people do also own (small) houses, and they are quite aware of ownership’s legal quality and benefit. https://youtu.be/iCmdQiGrtIg .
No they don’t.
Erik, Once Upon a Time in the UK when the Price to Earnings Ratio was around 3:1 I’m thinking back in the 70s, buying your own home and the so called “getting your foot on the housing ladder” was certainly doable, particularly for couples with stability of employment. These days, with minimum wage and house price inflation the picture has changed dramatically, with P/E ratios > 10:1.
You can buy a 100m2 house and 1000m2 for below 60000€. 5% in down payment, 80% in priority loans 1-5% interest, 10% bank loans, is the usual loan patterns.
In third nations it is off course even cheaper. I have seen i Latin how the Municipality give away empty house to for example an alonne mother with 11 kids. 7 her own, 4 from other family.
They were fine, 25hrs/week in the crops gave $200/mth. The many children are many hands to help. Grown up they get fiancee and come home with TV, refrigerator, 3 mobil phones in house. It was tight, but they lived.
You can just not buy it in the middle of London, Paris, Rom. In Sweden you can do it, on Internet Italy advertise after people to deserted Italian villages
You think these places are ugly bore some? They are not. Nice places, nice landscape, nice opportunities for a family who wish to own a house and build up something. Out long away from big city.
You guys talk about spoiled Western people who can only live in the Capitol.
“Creepy”? Personally, I’d go straight to “treasonous” and hang the fuckers!
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Insidious, sinister, or pernicious?
Few would choose to be associated with people or things that are insidious, sinister, or pernicious; all three of these words have decidedly unpleasant meanings, each with its own particular shade of nastiness.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insidious
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/buy-to-let/why-landlords-grateful-record-high-immigration
Money > Property > Buy to let
Influx of immigrants is propping up an otherwise untenable buy-to-let sector
As costs rise and profits decline, an injection of rental demand is crucial for landlords
Josh Kirby
Senior Money Writer
27 January 2025
While house prices across Britain are beginning to stall, rents are continuing to soar.
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/rushanara-ali-homelessness-minister-resigns-b1241846.html
Homelessness minister resigns after ‘forcing out tenants from east London townhouse and raising rent by £700’
Rushanara Ali reportedly increased living costs on the four-bedroom property near the Olympic Village to £4,000 a month
8 August 2025
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https://order-order.com/2025/08/07/every-way-rushanara-ali-broke-the-terms-of-labours-upcoming-renters-rights-bill
Rushanara Ali is breaching the terms of Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill before it has even come into force. The i Paper is having a meltdown over the fact that Labour’s homelessness minister allegedly evicting her tenants before listing her East London property again at a higher rate. Legal and a process known as ‘raising the rent’…
Rackmanism returns for those old enough to remember the scandal from the 60s involving the notorious landlord Peter Rackman.
Soz…could be Rachman ?
A housing solution,
The best under the sun,
No-one owns two houses,
’til everyone owns one.
If only.
LOL…….socialist solution.
How much money do you need in your grave?
I have heard the havers are beginning to burn all their wealth just before they die, to secure no socialist government nor any greedy lazy socialist family or gay right organisation get anything.
It is a typical commie solution. All surplus of corn set aside must be giving to the Central Committee.
I am with you and Cardin in the principle. But it will not work and it didnt work that way in reality.
Why not just go all communist? It’s my money, I’ll do what I want with it. You’re just playing the same restriction game they are. Fuck that, it’s like the common good bullshit where we all have to be good little lemmings and wear our masks and take our jabs. Like Arnold said, “Screw your freedoms”. I can see restrictions on these vulture equity firms, but you’re treading on liberty with that.
Looks like a lot of socialist/communists on this site. Weird.
Australia has been chosen to be the litmus test for everything starting from the “covid” response onwards.
Push the envelope.
They moved on to Ireland.
That, I can assure you is not going well.
Moving un-Irish people into Ireland is not like doing it in Eastbourne or Reigate
The thinking is, if we can get away with it in Ireland, the rest will just go with it.
They fucked up,
If Ireland says no. It’s no
What shall we do with a drunken Irish sailor…….in the early morning? https://vkvideo.ru/video7529373_171149046
That’s an old Conservative idea from the UK.
I’ve never fancied being a landlord. Its superficially a great idea, a cannot lose proposition since you can raise a loan against the property and then get the tenant to not only pay back the loan but also cover the fixed costs of ownership — and even give you a profit. In practice the numbers just don’t stack up. Something has to give, and its usually, crowding too many people into too small a space, cutting corners in maintenance or finding alternate ways to augment your income. (Hoteliers in the US have jumped on the last one, finding all sorts of ways to ding guests for extras. Something similar happens with landlords with spurious cleaning, wear and tear and other fees, anything to avoid refunding that security deposit.)
I used to live in England. I pretty much gave up on the place in the 1980s when the government, among other things, forced the sale of council (public) housing to sitting tenants at cut rates. I liked council housing (and also ‘housing associations’, a sort of non-profit public housing corporation) because government is able to put its finger on the market scale by artificially lowering capital costs, taxes etc. This didn’t just provide cheap rents but it also put a floor under the housing market. This had knock on effects through society — not just in both public and private housing but in how much people needed to live adequately. Removing that underpinning (and, remember, most of the sold off council houses turned up sooner or later on the private rental market) was likely a major contributor to spiraling property prices. (It also didn’t work because the government had to end up indirectly subsidizing private landlords.) There is no “magic” to the market — you get what you pay for.
Banks decide what they are going to lend money for: if they want a property bubble, they get one. They can bubble up anything, even tulips.
Agree. Same here on the Continent. But there are still places where you can write your children on a list, and 10-20 years later you get a letter offering an little apartments to an affordable rent price.
It was a good principle for everybody as you write. Nobody paid more or less for that reason.
Martin, it also severely gouged out the availability of affordable rental housing, particularly in rural areas.
Even if you own your home, you are renting the land via property taxes.
We have never been free.
Nostalgia cultists think as if the past were glory times, but back then banks were even more predatory!
I call it the “freehold” illusion
In UK, you would be amazed at the number of people who think they own their homes.
At one time, long ago, in the Dark Ages before the lords took over everywhere, people owned allodial land. Allodial land is owned, actually owned, lock, stock and barrel. There is very little of it left around. Very little. None in the US, I think. Maybe some in France or Germany.
Weather weapons can put an end to that at any rate.
You don’t have tax people into smaller dwellings, just raise prices and that will occur naturally.
Accelerationists would do both!
Wonderful, lets hope they don’t find a way to apply it to aging, otherwise acceleration is a positive thing.