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[–] mayo@lemmy.today 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We do that in Vancouver and it's good. The fines are steep.

But it's opened a mini industry of people being paid to visit homes so they aren't 'empty'.

[–] Silentrizz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So it sounds like it helped the situation + created new jobs. Win-win

[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Nice.

Maybe the landlords will get really clever and start paying homeless people to live in their units, so they can pay a rock bottom price to avoid the tax .../s