> In Auckland, New Zealand, investors are buying property and houses en masse.
That isn't exactly a bad problem to have--if free construction is allowed and property taxes (or better yet, land value taxes) aren't constrained, it would be fairly straightforward to fund a significant portion of the governments' budgets, plus a basic income or rent subsidy, by a taxing foreign investors.
That isn't exactly a bad problem to have--if free construction is allowed and property taxes (or better yet, land value taxes) aren't constrained, it would be fairly straightforward to fund a significant portion of the governments' budgets, plus a basic income or rent subsidy, by a taxing foreign investors.