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Stop letting corporations gobble up single family homes.
Stop letting multi-home owners buy and buy and buy.
Tax vacant homes.
I subscribe to the newsletter for BIG by Matt Stoller and he's been writing about corporate slumlords and housing cartels lately. Shit's fucked.
In my city, there's a bunch of vacant homes that end up becoming crack dens because some out of state financial company bought it hoping to make bank and then forgot about it or defaulted on it.
My city is spending years in court trying to take the property back from these shitty companies.
I know this is a popular idea on Lemmy, but intentionally vacant homes are a very small minority next to homes that are not livable or not sellable. It’s mostly going to hurt people who can least afford it
Source?
Driving through rural areas and seeing all the unlivable homes. Seeing home listings in the rural area I grew up how long they can be on the market even when houses sell here their first day
I don’t see actual stats, but the internet has l plenty of anecdotes like
Edit: data is mostly by state, but does show rural states have th highest percentage of vacant homes. Looks like about 7.5 million “permanently vacant” homes in the US, or 5% of the market, and some percentage of those just won’t sell
However,Alasaka is a great example, listed as one of the highest percentage of vacant homes - but not one of the highest rates of homelessness
Thats why we don't make decisions on these sorts of things or wild declarations about them based on anecdotes.
Your reply may have come between my original wording and an edit that I thought was “quick enough”
The edit doesn't really show why it would effect poor people disproportionately. Also, no one should be surprised that vacant homes in the ass end of alaska have very little effect on rates of homelessness.
Homes where noone wants to live don't count towards relief for a shortage unless you can figure out how to make those places at least baseline attractive to people. Jobs, schools, parks, a sportsball team, all that stuff.
Exactly. Passing a tax on empty homes will disproportionately hurt people who can’t sell for homes that can’t solve the problem
Still makes sense in places with tight housing markets, though. Triply and quadruply so if it's infested by speculative investment. Then make sure that short-term rentals require a hotel license if it even smells of being a commercial short-term rental (couch surfing is completely fine, doesn't take up a housing unit) and last, but not least: Public housing. Look at Vienna as to how to do it but that can literally take the better part of a century to do because land. Specifically in the US, you also need to build tons of public transit don't worry even if you make your metro free at the point of use it's cheaper than road/sewer upkeep in suburbia. Suburbia is a financial graveyard for municipalities, they just don't generate enough tax revenue for the infrastructure they demand.
Seems like a solvable problem. If the home isn’t livable, have it condemned. Now it’s a tax write off.
Only put a tax on vacant homes where there is an active housing crisis, rural areas should be excluded
I don't see anything here that supports the idea that a vacancy tax would "hurt people who can least afford it". Even if we go the anecdotal route, the location of vacant homes says very little about their owners.
lol you’re worried about the landlords