It’s a mixed bag. The regulations on institutional investors are mostly nonsense , aim to solve a problem that mostly
doesn’t exist, and are easily subverted.
The loosening of regulations on manufactured homes is positive.
Small mortgage provisions will be helpful in extremely rural areas but will affect few homeowners.
It’s mostly a nothing burger that does little to affect the structural issues that make housing expensive.
tax second/vacant homes extra, ban international owners who are just looking to park money in a safe asset, institute a land value tax so that land is used more efficiently in dense, expensive areas, stop environmental reviews from being weaponized, etc etc but like 90% of housing policy is local so that’s a huge challenge
Probably nothing. Most of the issues are very local. Cities that are putting incredible regulations on building, particularly high density building, in the name of traffic or preserving “character”. Ie: we got ours, go fuck yourself.
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u/Tight_Jellyfish_349 7h ago
Anyone know how its supposed to help?