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If they rent it they pay income tax anyway (or rather the company that owns the place does). The "virtual rent" added to income is for people who own the place where they live.

Switzerland is not very home ownership friendly, at least there are very little tax incentives for it (personally I'd rather have people invest their wealth into productive things rather than real estate, so I find it good). In large cities most places are owned by banks/insurances/other real estate companies and rented out.

I wouldn't call not giving special privileges to home owners over renters unfriendly, I'd call it neutral and fair.

They didn't say it was unfriendly, they said it was not friendly. So, neutral.

That's a distinction without a difference, they mean the same thing. Not friendly does not imply neutral, it implies not friendly. If I said don't walk through that neighborhood it's not friendly, you would not interpret that as saying it's neutral.

Nope, that's not how prices are set.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-a-land-value-tax-not-create-d...

It's rent adjusted. So if everyone passes it on to the tennants they end up paying more tax.