Landlords are bad when the lack of tenants protections, such as in the UK, makes it so that often the only options available are living with rats and mould or being evicted for protesting. People that bought flats as an alternative to a private pension or small “professional landlords” are especially bad. Building more doesn’t necessarily fix this problem, because research costs are extremely high for tenants even if flats are very cheap.
Germany has a housing shortage, but people don’t end up homeless or dying of mould, because the tenant would just withhold rent and crush the landlord in court.
Said that, I agree with all your ideas, especially tying taxes to market rent (in Switzerland, if you own property, the average rent for your area is added to your income in your tax return), apart from the last. 1) Luxury housing is better than nothing, 2) demonising luxury housing (that in the UK means having a working lift and renovated windows and maybe air conditioning) is a way of blocking all new builds.
Germany has a housing shortage, but people don’t end up homeless or dying of mould, because the tenant would just withhold rent and crush the landlord in court.
Said that, I agree with all your ideas, especially tying taxes to market rent (in Switzerland, if you own property, the average rent for your area is added to your income in your tax return), apart from the last. 1) Luxury housing is better than nothing, 2) demonising luxury housing (that in the UK means having a working lift and renovated windows and maybe air conditioning) is a way of blocking all new builds.