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1st-of-its-kind anti-renoviction bylaw taking shape in Hamilton, as city looks to keep tenants housed (www.cbc.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Doesn't this encourage speculators to buy a place and not rent it out, further exacerbating the housing crisis? We need taxes on empty units to be high enough to maintain the incentive to rent them out.