Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
user-inactivated · 2823 days ago · link · · parent · post: Paris is tripling the tax on owners of vacant houses
what do you mean by "increase housing stock"? create a supply of housing to meet demand for housing? i don't know much about the parisian housing situation but i really doubt more people is what paris needs. i also doubt that the sorts of houses owned by people who do not live in them will meaningfully increase the "housing stock" for the sorts of people who are trying to find a home. meanwhile, two-house owners, which is to say the rich and maybe a few businessmen who work parttime in paris, will move to strasbourg. great.