Report: There are 27.4 Empty Homes for Each Homeless Person in the U.S
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Look, let’s start with the absurd math. The U.S. Census Bureau says we’ve got about 17 million vacant houses sitting empty while roughly…
  • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    3 hours ago

    An excise tax on multiple house owners would be good in my opinion. And make the percentage go up with the number houses an individual or entity owns.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 hour ago

      Are you including landlords? Most people with multiple houses have them to rent out: they’re not empty.

      Some percentage of people have a second “empty” house for vacations or as snowbirds, but I imagine the number with more is vanishingly small.

      I like the variation we have now, but more so. Let’s increase property taxes substantially, but also increase the residential exemption significantly.

      • Low end houses become close to free of taxes
      • the average house is taxed the same
      • but taxes on high end houses and multiple houses are higher
      • so overall property taxes go way up
      • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        49 minutes ago

        I didn’t say anything about empty houses. I just said houses. Fuck landlords. And if you can afford an extra house that you don’t live in all the time, you can afford extra taxes on that house.

        Oh and yeah, we should absolutely lower the taxes on single occupancy homes. EAT THE FUCKING RICH