Once I met a billionaire. Big burley billionaire, crying. He says to me. Crying over my shoulder. Big fella, burley. He says. Crying. He says, sir! Sir! My dada center! These people won’t let me build my dada center!
He says. Crying. My dada center, with it, I could. But without it, I can’t, I really can’t. I could learn everything there’s to know about all of them. I could know how much of my future money they have and how to remove it. It’s mine! Give it to me! Crying! My dada! My dada center! Er er er er! Big big fella. Burly crying fella.
From the exact color of all their shirts, the foods they eat, the curvature and contours of all their sexual organ parts and the gas they purchase to ride to work. All of it should be in my dada center sir! But it’s not! They won’t let me build it he says.
So I made a deal with them. I talked with them and we made a deal. It’s so good we never seen a deal like this ever before in the entire human history. The deal. It’s an art if you didn’t know. I talked to them and the deal with them was very. Very nice deal. It allows them to not complain about the da da center. Isn’t that a good deal? And their women. Beautiful women. You can. Because you’re famous. You can just grab them by the pussy. And they let you do it when you’re famous. Ya no? Good good deal we made.
I puked a little. Good job
They have 60k+ apartments that are empty. How about we start there?
So why are they empty? There’s got to be more to what your saying.
With rent control and new building standards its more economical to write them off as a loss for taxes than renovate. This is where its would be ideal to give tax breaks/looser rent control to make them habitable.
Its way more eco friendly to fix what we already have in place than build new. Not that I’m against building new but if we attacked on both fronts that would be 110k homes for people vs 50k.
its more economical to write them off as a loss for taxes than renovate
There’s a simple solution for that. If a house sits empty for more than six months, it becomes the property of the city. Maybe add a provision that lets the owners surrender unoccupied houses willingly in return for a small flat compensation. Problem solved.
Forcing people to lose money to restore a lame asset or they steal your property… Yeah that won’t fly.