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

  • ulterno@programming.dev
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    Nice.
    This gives me an idea.

    Additional tax for rooms marked as “for rent”, but going unrented for enough part of the year.
    Calculation will also take into account recent evictions.

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      I’ve had a similar idea for a while. There should be a fine/tax for unrented properties proportional to the amount being asked for rent. Any money collected from this goes to housing support for low-income renters.

      This creates a market incentive to lower rents if you can’t get someone in a unit.