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Tax the land

One radical idea to solve America’s housing crisis.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22951092/land-tax-housing-crisis

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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I've always felt that land zoned for residential without anyone living on it should be heavily taxed, and residential land should be exponentially taxed depending on the size of it.

I see all this empty land in the middle of large cities doing nothing because someone bought a few acres 20 years ago and they are just sitting on it waiting for the price to go up and up and up when someone else could be building housing on it.

[–] Quexotic 1 points 4 months ago

I like this very much! I'll bring this up to my mayor next time I see him. Big thank.

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