Biden to propose new $5000 tax credit for first-time home buyers

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We tried this in Oz. House prices immediately go up 5k.

Government effectively funding the housing bubble.

Some part of me thinks that many of the backers of this idea want exactly that.

I suspect that the goal with this program is to advantage first time home buyers over their competitors, such as REITs and hedge funds that have been indiscriminately buying up housing across the country. Obviously the devil is in the details but there's a way to implement this that makes sense and isn't insane, but we'll have to wait until the bill passes to see if that's the path we take.

That's not what happened the last time they did this in the states.