That's a good point: the vacancy tax shouldn't be tied to motivation. It should just be applied across the board. No matter how much housing is built, land and

That's a good point: the vacancy tax shouldn't be tied to motivation. It should just be applied across the board. No matter how much housing is built, land and housing will be a relatively scarce resource (we can't make more land, per se, and although we can build higher density housing even that has a limit). It shouldn't matter why a property is vacant in these areas.