Is your commercial district dead? are apartments too expensive? try a Vacancy tax, it forces those nasty developers to lower rents with one simple trick. Making it so they get fairly taxed for the space they use in our cities! Developers and landlords hate this one simple way to make small businesses and apartments affordable
Basically you tax apartments and rental spaces, it can be as low as 1% of the rent price annually as long as they are vacant and it forces developers to lower rents or else they take losses, this has been shown to work in Vancouver where it managed to cause over a 3rd of empty units to become occupied within 3 years
Fuck it, this can be
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