
Originally Posted by
Seran
You advocated government intervention initially, then you backtracked that government intervention would be authoritarianism a second later, which is it? Your much vaunted supply and demand is merely a theory that as long as there is demand, artificially manipulating supply will drive up profit margins. I'm not entirely sure why you think there's anything stopping the few major national builders from going whole hog, but building supplies are /not/ in short supply and the price index has fallen by almost 60 points. Builders sell homes at cost+ and a margin, so I don't know why you think they have any problem selling homes if the build them, as we both agree on, there is plenty of demand that they're bought once actually constructed.
Freeing up the massive supply of vacant homes has been taken up by an increasing number of states which are levying larger and larger taxes on under utilized or non utilized properties, which is a necessary solution.