Chapter 10 of "The Great Housing Hijack"

My Favorite Quotes

“The top five professions most likely to be landlords are all medical specialists. Surgeons, anaesthetists, dentists, psychiatrists.”

“Landlordism is a proxy for income.”

“In Australia, an estimated $1.5 billion per year is spent on real estate advertising, which is about a third of all media advertising revenue. In the United States, real estate media advertising is about US$27 billion.”

“The story that if you tax landlords they will sell and that will create a housing shortage and higher rents is obviously wrong. But it was part of the lobbying at Australia’s first inquiry into rents in 1911 and it remains a story well ventilated today in the press.”

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