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Rent control has worked spectacularly well everywhere it has been tried, and never has any downsides.

I mean that’s the theory, right? It’s never been truly tried?

There are great new ideas here though like seizing all the beachfront vacation homes

The great idea is to greatly increase property prices on unused/underutilized land/non primary homes.

I would even tie some portion of primary home property tax to the density of people living on a lot.

And then what? That's a very short-run solution. Eventually, you have to build.

This is sarcasm.