yes, having less population will help make housing cheaper, Chairman Mao
but it won't cause the huge buy-to-let owners to divest themselves of their assets. they will simply buy more houses at cheaper prices, increasing their portfolio to even less equanamous levels.
my plan makes this form of making money less competitive compared to a more distributed model. I think it would be a better society where more people owned their own homes, which is why I'm advocating
( cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 25 Apr 2015, 7:06, 1 reply)

Dude, the housing crisis has a simple cause:
Too many people, and not enough houses.

The matter of finances is mostly irrelevant... there will always be people wanting to own and always be people wanting to rent. What matters is availability... increase the demand or decrease the supply and they get more expensive.

These simple economic pressures will not go away by changing the financial arrangements based on top of them. In the long run there is only one direction that property value goes: up.

Building more houses, or creating fewer people are your only real options... I recommend the latter as it's the long term one.
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Sun 26 Apr 2015, 19:41, closed)