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How so?

Ideally, if one company charged too much for rent, the person living there could move to another place owned by a different company that would charge cheaper rent, in an effort to take business from the first company.

The issue arrives when monopolies control the majority of homes, but those monopolies can be broken much more easily if the cost of buying homes went down (from an increased supply of them) and the barrier to entry of new homeowners who want to rent went down. That would increase competition and would eliminate these monopolies.

You do realize that there are members of marginalized groups who have been elected as republicans. Like there's black republicans. Is voting for them 'blatantly racist'? If you overuse language it loses some of its meaning

Depends on what kinda right wingers your talking about Ik a few people who believe in more laissez-faire free market economic policies, and they're pretty chill

If you wanted bread to be cheaper, you would increase the supply of bread. If you want homes to be cheaper, increase the amount of homes. It might not be the issue at hand, but it definitely is a valid solution.

if you make more homes, then the value of each home individually would drop.

no one can prove if their sentient you know

There was a time once where the country did function like that but international trade barely existed compared to now so its not easily comparable.

To be fair, that was at the end of his term

Ik a few people who lean to the right economically but aren't in favor of all this authoritarian stuff And they're not Nazis, you cant just generalize so broadly about what should or shouldn't be tolerated. Ofc if someone is being blatantly racist that shouldnt be tolerated, but economic discussion is totally fine

Lots of people buy homes as an investment, its not only large corporations that do this, and if someone bought a home expecting that when they sell it they will get most of their money back, or even a profit on it, they would really be harmed by a government guaranteeing effectively free housing for all. If you want such a world to exist, it can't be done instantly for sure

This is effectively the same as the government paying some of the cost of making houses. Meaning that if they make more houses, they get 'paid' by the government, by paying less taxes. They pocket the savings because that is what the government gave to incentivize them making more homes.