Comment on Housing prices
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoPeople should be taxed up the wazoo for any property they personally do not occupy.
Comment on Housing prices
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoPeople should be taxed up the wazoo for any property they personally do not occupy.
qat@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
That just increases rental prices (making buying more attractive, but that’s not an option for many people, and also supply is constrained).
I think the best is just to not allow buying a home for the purpose of renting it out. If you want to rent out a property, sure, but you need to build one first.
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Rental units are occupied. The tax would punish unoccupied rental units and drive down prices.
Tja@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Or it will increase supply (there are millions of unoccupied units purely for speculation) and lower rent prices.