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Actually the people who would feel the disincentive most strongly are speculators. Those are the people we want to discourage.

The whole point is to slow the growth of prices, by giving cities an incentive to increase supply. Higher prices are the biggest disincentive to purchasers.

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I have brought this up in multiple Prop 13 discussions, including I think the one you are referring to where you pitched your proposal. My opinion is that the proper fix for Prop 13 is to modify it to match Florida's much saner[1] practice of only providing the appreciation cap to owner-occupied primary residences. That speculators, investors, and landlords get to benefit from taxable value caps is bullshit, IMNSHO.

[1] Who would have expected Florida to be the same one on anything?

I think you did bring it up there, and I completely agree. I don't know how much it would help, though, in the specific area of giving cities more of an incentive to approve residential construction projects. I guess it would help some.

That's an arbitrary advantage given to homeowners over renters (who pay the landlord's taxes)

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