You might find interesting experiments on housing in Asia. Specifically Singapore has a housing subsidy system such that basic housing is subsidized to be affordable for all. In China land is rented from the government on a lease. This does tend to have the weird side effect of encouraging massive build-outs as it's how cities raise money.
One of the more interesting ideas I heard is that zoning is a cause of developers only building luxury apartments in US cities. If there were no minimum apartment size, a building could be split into smaller spaces such that the profitability per sq ft remains the same.
> then the rents go up by the same amount
I can believe that rents go up. I am skeptical that specifically rents go up by _exactly the same amount_ and in every neighborhood when a portable income source is introduced, such that it perfectly cancels it and we're back to nothing. I don't hear this criticism brought out for a minimum wage hike or tax reductions.
One of the more interesting ideas I heard is that zoning is a cause of developers only building luxury apartments in US cities. If there were no minimum apartment size, a building could be split into smaller spaces such that the profitability per sq ft remains the same.
> then the rents go up by the same amount
I can believe that rents go up. I am skeptical that specifically rents go up by _exactly the same amount_ and in every neighborhood when a portable income source is introduced, such that it perfectly cancels it and we're back to nothing. I don't hear this criticism brought out for a minimum wage hike or tax reductions.