MORE HOMEBUYERS TAX CREDITS? JUST SAY NO
Amen to this comment from Calculated Risk:
The problem in housing is there is too much supply (at the current price). Incentivizing people to buy existing homes just shuffles households around – it does NOT reduce the overall supply unless the buyer is moving out of their parent’s basement. I doubt that happened very often. Note: It is important to remember that rental units are part of the overall supply, so moving people from a rental unit to homeownership doesn’t help.
And if the tax credit leads to more new home sales – that ADDS to the excess supply. And that makes the situation WORSE.
It would be far better for housing and the economy to announce “There will be no further housing tax credits.”
Someone please send this along to Congress. They’re making things worse with their attempts to buy their next election by price fixing the US housing market and shuffling demand around. Congress needs to get out of the bailout game. They’re just no good at it….
Congress needs to get out of the [...]* game. They’re just no good at it….
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TPC, the Executive and the Legislative branches are both controlled by the Socialist Pary. And the only thing socialists know how to do is interfere with free markets. In fact, by definition that is what socialists DO for a living because they do not believe in free markets or in Darwinian outcomes. So, without regard to what we think should happen, the socialists will interfere more, not less, as the data worsens.