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My solution of building more houses to increase supply helps everyone who needs a place to live and hurts the people who own one or more houses right now.
Your solution helps the people rich enough to have a down payment on hand while hurting those too poor to be able to afford a house.
If we are talking about helping "NORMAL WORKING PEOPLE" my solution does that and yours does not.
There is no reality where we can build fast enough to actually lower demand enough that prices lower. At least not in southern California, where I live.
Yes, we need to build. But realistically, new construction is snapped up at exorbitant "luxury" prices. People always claim it "frees up other supply" of older homes, but that's complete bullshit.
Yes, if suddenly 30 high rise condos buildings just appeared at the same time, prices may actually be favorably impacted. But reality says that builders are going to maximize their returns, and avoid flooding the market with new homes all at once.
There is no reality where banning corporations from buying houses lowers prices either. Prices are going up in the medium term no matter what. All the more reason we have to actually solve the actual problem.
You do understand that this isn't an either/or situation, right?
Sure, but I am saying that the banning policy hurts poorer people to help richer people so I wouldn't do that.
I'm saying to build more because it accomplishes the goal people say they are trying to achieve but aren't.