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The pinkos are clutching handbags about the tax breaks for landlords in Vienna.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02673037.2020.1806992Which brings up the problem with rental property... Who finances the construction and management?
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I think one of the avenues to go down here is to disallow BTL mortgages for existing properties, and only allow it on new ones.
Also happily creates an incentive for potential landlords to build or fund the building of new homes, but particularly where rentals are most needed: on brownfield plots in cities and densifying the suburbs, allowing things like cycling infrastructure to become more viable.
slippers
Austria and Switzerland are the two I'm most familiar with. Vienna is one of the most affordable cities in the world, in terms of rental costs.
Can see how supply could be reduced by it in terms of fewer developers thinking it's financially viable to build apartments, but that's a problem to be solved...not a reason to not do it.
As somebody mentioned upthread... it'd need to be accompanied by empowered housing associations and social housing projects. Clearly the current situation of developers building luxury flats with one or two"affordable units" couldn't continue.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/12/vienna-housing-policy-uk-rent-controls