If you pay 1% for one house, someone with 2 houses should pay 2%, and a company with 2000 homes should pay 2000%

That would make it increasingly difficult for mega companies to buy up everything and torture the housing market

  • Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Two policies would make a huge impact on this.

    An additional tax on nonresident ownership and a punitive tax on vacancies based on occupancy rates.

    Those two would be enough to discourage hoarding, scalping and ghost neighborhoods .