Kill homebuyers, drive them before you like cattle, and listen to the lamentations of their real-estate agents.
Or slap on a huge land transfer tax, or raise interest rates into the stratosphere, or sit on the sidelines as your major source of employment folds tents with no visible means of replacing the lost jobs, or switch off the water mains and sewers. You could also sharply curtail the extension police/fire/emergency services to new developments as an austerity measure.
-- Steve thinks there are tons of ways to make buying a new home unattractive enough that few people would go on the market.
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I mean, the verbal principal makes sense, but how does one decrease demand?
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Or slap on a huge land transfer tax, or raise interest rates into the stratosphere, or sit on the sidelines as your major source of employment folds tents with no visible means of replacing the lost jobs, or switch off the water mains and sewers. You could also sharply curtail the extension police/fire/emergency services to new developments as an austerity measure.
-- Steve thinks there are tons of ways to make buying a new home unattractive enough that few people would go on the market.
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Lol.
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Aside from
-- Steve's boggled at the (in a literal sense) decivilisation happening just a couple of hours down the road from his home.