• broguy89@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    A massive tax on owning multiple homes that goes to funding housing the homeless.

    • BedSharkPal
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      1 year ago

      Oh no we couldn’t do that! What we’re just going to do something Singapore already does, and has been shown to actually work?

      • SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Is that coupled with public mental health care or? I can only image what a schizophrenic homeless person straight off the street could do to an apartment in a day or two.

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          1 year ago

          Look at the average rent price vs average salary these days, “normal” people are now becoming homeless. I can’t even imagine what people going through a divorce right now are going though.

          Homelessness used to be *much *harder to slip into than it is now.

          • SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org
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            1 year ago

            I guess it depends on where you live. I can rent a 2 bed house for $550 within a 20 minute drive to a major state university. Although that small town kind of sucks, but cheap housing though!

    • daq@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      I like the idea, but no good way for this to work out.

      Small time landlords with a few properties will get fucked out of existence while massive corporations will get their overpriced lawyers to find a loophole and not pay a dime in taxes despite owning thousands of properties. Then they will just buy up the rest of real estate that small time landlords can’t afford now because of taxes.

      There’s a 0% chance gov can implement this tax correctly, but even if by some random chance they do, corporations will simply pass it down to renters.