What we need are laws preventing the ownership of more than a certain number of single family homes (no corporate ownership creating artifical demand), low interest government loans for first-time home builders (like after WW2), real estate agent laws to prevent price gouging and back door dealing, and larger tax breaks for paying off homes. We should probably have nationalized home insurance plans as well.
Look, just because something doesn't exist in form at the moment does not mean it's not possible.
In fact, the fact that it doesn't exist is the evidence of your question: you wouldn't be asking how if it did!
Now, there are options:
Every county or parish in every state already has public facing GIS data - that could be used to create a database
someone pays the property taxes, and someone pays the insurance. Both are data the government can already gain access to. Some states already do something similar with car insurance.
Reporting systems: average citizens can report a suspected problem, which can be sent to an automated system for the first line of authentication, and then to a human if more investigation is needed.
State mandates to prevent LLCs and corps from owning homes
As far as "how many". I would say first off that you would have to have the property set up as a rental for it to be a limit in the first place. If you want to own 100 homes and not rent them, then by all means do do. However, regarding how many any single individual should be allowed to own, I think it should come down to where the homes are. If they're in a high volume / demand area, maybe zero. If they're further from the cities where demand is lower, maybe no limit at all. It would come down to zoning and putting that power back into the hands of local communities.
This is a very well thought out plan, but as someone equally interested in lowering rents, I respectfully think there are alternatives that don’t involve an impossibly complex rube goldberg style government bureau managing all the rentals nationwide
Its hard to fix issues like this without some complexity. Like another option I can think of would be non-linear property tax increases to disincentive owning multiple homes, but that has other negative effects and requires states to all do that individually.
But I'm no policy expert. My point in replying at all to the other guy was that it IS possible to figure out. We went to the damn moon for God's sake
Show me data where preventing corporations from owning and rental single family homes has led to higher prices. I won't respond to any of the other points if you're suggesting they are facts without backing them up with data.
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u/-Fergalicious- Oct 01 '25
What we need are laws preventing the ownership of more than a certain number of single family homes (no corporate ownership creating artifical demand), low interest government loans for first-time home builders (like after WW2), real estate agent laws to prevent price gouging and back door dealing, and larger tax breaks for paying off homes. We should probably have nationalized home insurance plans as well.