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How to avoid higher rents/housing and land prices
As the lower class will have more money to spend and housing, the free market will cause higher prices for them immediately.
- [Reddit link of paper] Dangers of basic income without land value taxation. It is about paying a basic income with land value taxation and the benefits of it (as housing prices of the lesser land will remain low and speculation on land prices diminishes).
- [Actualisation of cadastral income] In Belgium, we already have a tax on houses/land (kadastraal inkomen), but the rates are still the ones from decades ago and we could set them higher to reflect the actual prices.
Housing and environment
Old houses are often badly insulated and are bad for the environment as such. New houses are required to have a , which admittedly