Make short term rental illegal, 100% tax on empty house, boom crisis solved
Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty?
Venator@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
Should have a tax on empty houses, top dicincentivise land banking with properties that are unoccupied. That could also bring a means to take over properties where the owner is unknown, when the taxes are unpaid long enough.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
galmuth@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Making short term rental completely illegal is not a good idea as it would impact on local tourism etc, but they should allow (or force) councils to limit licences for short term rentals to a certain percentage of housing.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
There’s hotels for tourists
frazorth@feddit.uk 2 days ago
I wouldn’t visit.
I have two children, and the number of hotels where I can get joining rooms so I dont have to actually share with them is basically zero.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Why stop at short term?
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Because some people don’t want to own the place they live in?
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 days ago
And a tax on second, third, etc homes. Outside of summer some places are starting to look like a ghost town.
frazorth@feddit.uk 2 days ago
We can, but very few people own a second, let along a third or fourth.
Either they are landlords and running it through a business, and how do you prevent a business from owning two locations?
Sorry Londis, you can only have one store because you have a flat upstairs?
Or they own them privately, and in this country its massively overstated. Presumably to try and start a bit of class warfare, but folks see US news and think it applies here.
Fucking Tories, making the crabs pull everyone back into the bucket when there really aren’t that many. Even Shelter doesn’t call it out as a problem, compared to the many other things we could do to help.