• kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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      22 days ago

      Aggressive and escalating.

      The longer you leave a residential property vacant, the higher the tax rate becomes.

      Speculating on residential housing needs to become costly more expensive than making it livable and available for people to live there.

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      23 days ago

      Vacant House Taxes have been tried throughout Canada and are generally ineffective. They are just a distraction.

      The main reason why they don’t work is fairly obvious: Why would someone own property to keep it vacant?

      Sure, there are some people with vacation homes, or second homes where they frequently visit (heck, I might have to get an apartment where my office is located now we’re being forced to return to the office). Oh the Urbanity has a great video where they point out the vast majority of “Vacant Homes” are either students who don’t permanently live there, in the process of a move, under renovation, etc.

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          22 days ago

          I think people who think about housing critically get it, but unfortunately I don’t think most Canadians get this, either on or off Lemmy. It’s too easy to see “1.3 Million Vacant Houses” and think that’s a solution for the Housing Crisis.

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            22 days ago

            I’m not used to having less political bullshit here, but I guess it could be regional.

            At the federal level they’re mostly doing tax breaks for potential owners, and subsidies for builders.

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      23 days ago

      Government can do this tomorrow but it will never happen.

      He’s regime whores who will do policy that hurts their owners.