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Offer property tax incentives to real estate owners who have empty homes if they lease them to tenants that have issues with housing stability at rates they can
by macinjosh 7y ago
Offer property tax incentives to real estate owners who have empty homes if they lease them to tenants that have issues with housing stability at rates they can realistically afford.
The owner gets tax benefits. People in need get a home to live in. The city has fewer homeless. All lease income could go towards upkeep.
- Psyladine 7y agoHow about punishing malingering misuse of resources rather than offering a carrot. Owners incentivized to utilize land, more real estate available, foreign investment squatting suffers.
- macinjosh 7y agoWho gets to decide what is or isn't a misuse of resources? People like you would rather use force to bend others to your worldview than actually execute on realistic solutions.
- Psyladine 7y agoVacancy taxes are hardly authoritarian. If government has any purpose it is to address the irreconcilable conflicts of individual self-interest vs the benefit of all. And your 'realistic solutions' leads to exploitive loopholes for people who already benefit enough without additional tax incentives, like communities that go in on luxury senior developments to meet their low-income/transient housing obligations.