Instead of taxing investment firms for buying up all the housing and turning it into Airbnb's or keeping it empty to drive up house prices and rents on their other real estate investments.

Here in Australia one guy owns 30 thousand empty houses and the government pays his company to keep them empty essentially, by waiving all the fees and taxes related to owning them that normal home owners would pay.

Meanwhile everyone is blaming migrants for our housing shortage because that's who the mainstream media tells them to blame.