• OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    That isnt true, housing supply isn’t inelastic. Houses decay, new homes are built, and landlords remove homes from the market to artificially constrain supply.

    Also that isnt what the graph illustrates.

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      1 year ago

      LVT taxes the unimproved value of land, so we are talking about land itself not what is built on top of it such as housing. Since land is a product of nature, the supply of it is perfectly inelastic

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        People live in housing though, which is distinct from land, and the thing they’re claiming is static