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adjl posted...

I'm just seeing some things about the impact of vacancy taxes, which isn't tremendously useful for drawing definite conclusions.

my Cynicism Sense tells me any sort of "vacancy tax" will quickly become a de facto "empty lot tax".

willythemailboy posted...

But of course there is, as the politicians who set those rates can run on keeping them as low as possible. The more units that are rent controlled, the more votes that can be bought by keeping rent increases lower than they should be.

this seems like a good way to spark off an urban decay death-spiral.