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If you pay 1% for one house, someone with 2 houses should pay 2%, and a company with 2000 homes should pay 2000%

That would make it increasingly difficult for mega companies to buy up everything and torture the housing market

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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 37 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

They'd just make 2,000 shell companies, each with one house.

Perfectly legal.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Companies shouldn't be allowed to own housing

[–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

I always thought "if corporations are people, then why can they own other corporations"

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 6 points 19 hours ago

They often do that already.

It reduces the liability when sued. If you do something dumb and owe someone $100,000,000. You just abandon that one property and make that company bankrupt, you don't lose all your other properties too.

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

because of that reading government anti-corruption investigations can cause vertigo - just getting through the tense web of shells and shells of shells and mothershells and whatnot - there was one case in which the company had like 50 entities removed from the culprit

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 19 hours ago

Every hurdle makes it more expensive to run and less profitable