Housing should be a commodity. Commodities are fungible, plentiful, and easily tradable.

Housing right now is the opposite of a commodity: it's a boutique investment for individuals whose price is propped up by regulations that artificially limit supply.

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repsilat 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, the grandparent scored an own goal with their aside

>> The "free market" (which has been demonstrated to not be free at all)

The Berlin rental market suffers under strong government intervention, and would benefit from being much freer.

	▲	4gotunameagain 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is not true. Two more strong government interventions that would benefit the housing market: - Tax empty flats to death - Disallow corporate ownership of residential property

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4gotunameagain 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I do not think that housing should be broadly available for trade in global markets, in the typical definition of a commodity.

That enables mass buyouts of housing from corporation which leads to rent extraction and a myriad of woes.