Empty home crisis: Why aren't they being used to solve shortages?
Empty home crisis: Why aren't they being used to solve shortages?
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Empty home crisis: Why aren't they being used to solve shortages?
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Jonn Elledge has written some good stuff on this question.
Short version is that, as the article tacitly acknowledges, even if you filled every empty home, you still wouldn't house everyone on the waiting list!
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we have the opposite in my country. About a third of all property is vacant. If you housed everyone (and we don't have a big homeless population) we'd still have a lot of vacant properties. And more just keep going up. If you see a picture of Malta, keep in mind that the actual skyline is littered with construction cranes. And this is not in any way an exaggeration.
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Empty residential properties should be taxed to encourage renting or selling them to someone who will actually live in them.
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Because most of them are fucked?
There's a few around me and you'd be lucky if they've still got a roof. If you've not got a pot to piss in, £80k of repairs are not on your shopping list.