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Imagine the state did this instead using taxes and eminent domain. Congrats, you’ve invented Vienna, one of the most beautiful cities in the entire world.



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> using taxes

Is it a tax credit? The key is allowing tenants to invest and get dividends from the portfolio, which they can then use to pay for rent (or whatever they like).


They key is to make housing incredibly affordable, such that it has no real overall impact on people’s wages or upward mobility:

https://www.politico.eu/article/vienna-social-housing-archit...


Hong Kong too.




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