Comment by Glyptodon
2 days ago
Just build more housing, the whole "let's make rules to avoid the easy and obvious solution" trend annoys me.
2 days ago
Just build more housing, the whole "let's make rules to avoid the easy and obvious solution" trend annoys me.
Utilizing vacant properties is easier and cheaper than building new ones, by a massive margin. We should do both, but ignoring perfectly good homes in desirable locations being used by nobody is silly.
If the goal is to reduce the number of vacant homes, then why not create a tax on those specifically. Corporate owned homes and vacant homes are not the same thing at all.
If a home isn't the sole primary residence of a person, it's essentially "vacant" and should be taxed, imho.
I mean converting vacant is fine, to me it's the same category basically - increasing housing supply.