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Ha, I was tempted to make basically the same comment. I'm super weary of people mixing the two up!

Is it not an ID because of that? I don't see the relevance of mentioning address here.

Edit: oh, proof of residence? I went back and re-read the GP. It makes more sense in that context.

United States ID card

Passport seems like it sorta fits, but it's hardly universal.

Better a high horse than a Trojan horse, though

In fact, I do prefer to buy generics. There are dozens of us!

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Sure, it's hypothetically possible that it would slow down the mega corps. I wouldn't be holding my breath, though. IDK, call me a cynic.

Pretty much any housing changes will need to be written to be bulletproof, otherwise they'll loophole the ever-loving shit out of it.

I do see one problem with this type of regulation -- if you say "no more than 3 homes per entity", the "homes 4 rent" megalandlords will just create thousands of "homes 4 rent asdf" shell companies to get around the limit. I foresee tons of cat-and-mouse accounting shenanigans trying to dodge this sort of requirement.

A simpler method would be to increase both the property taxes and the homestead exemption, tuned so that individual homeowner pays about the same.

Limiting Airbnbs would help, too. Require city or county licensing for all guest accommodations, maybe, and have a set number of licenses?

Also, I don't want to try to kill off all housing rentals. Think about college housing, about people moving halfway across the country for a job, people who've just gotten divorced... there are lots of circumstances where it makes more sense to rent for a time than to pony up $$$ to buy a house or a condo. In a functional market, this would be, say, 10% of housing, and you wouldn't have the absurdity of "I pay $3000 in rent because the bank doesn't think I'll pay a $2000 mortgage".

Central park?

Wait, we are? TIL.

Lots of great recommendations here. I'd also add Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold. Her Penric novels are quite fun, too.

The Hornblower stories are also excellent. They might hit a bit simpler -- the characters are a bit more heroic, a bit less complicated. IMO both are worth reading, but they hit a bit different even though they sail through similar waters (I was going to say 'covers the same ground', ha!)