alt Hacker NewsUtilizing vacant properties is easier and cheaper than building new ones, by a massive margin. We should do both, but ignoring perfectly good homes in desirable locations being used by nobody is silly.
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Glyptodon • last Thursday at 2:56 AM
I mean converting vacant is fine, to me it's the same category basically - increasing housing supply.
If the goal is to reduce the number of vacant homes, then why not create a tax on those specifically. Corporate owned homes and vacant homes are not the same thing at all.