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[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I live in a small town in the SE US. I bought my house for $89,900, 12ish years ago. There are 3 vacant houses on my street and they are all listed for $250,00 or more. My house is bigger than all of them. They have all been empty for over a year.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 74 points 1 year ago (9 children)

They really should tax empty houses at 100%. You'll see how fast they will sell, and how low the price will go to achieve that.

[–] 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

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