Q&A: Housing
Housing
Question
If you could change things, would you make it so that every person is entitled to have only one apartment in their possession? If he has 10 children, he could buy 10, and when they reach age 18 they would receive them. Anyone who wants more would either be fined, or invest abroad. Then competition would grow, because it can’t be that even in this there should be a cartel. That one person comes from abroad and buys entire neighborhoods. Then prices would go down, and many people who until now couldn’t afford housing would be able to afford an apartment. What do you think?
Answer
A naive question. If I could make the whole world run differently, would I do so? Not interesting. Questions of capitalism have many aspects, and this is not how they are discussed.
Okay. So how should they be discussed? And really what I asked was whether this seems okay / proper to you. (“Would you change it” was just a figure of speech.) And my intention may have come out of context: that it would be good to increase competition, even strengthen it substantially, and thus enable everyone to have housing.