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blackbootz · 2820 days ago · link · · parent · post: Paris is tripling the tax on owners of vacant houses
There should be an avenue to provide relief to those unduly burdened by the tax hikes. The specifics I don't know off the bat. I don't, for example, know what proportion of people who own these abandoned houses are still living, how many of the houses are owned by private individuals versus commercial entities, how many are a first investment home versus a 20th, etc. I'm also aware that a lot of people own these junk houses and keep them around as depreciating properties for income tax purposes. That just seems broken. Also, Baltimore, like a lot of American cities, has a huge homelessness problem.