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snoodog · 2815 days ago · link · · parent · post: Paris is tripling the tax on owners of vacant houses
I think lack of market liquidity would be one problem. If you give houses to the homeless they can't afford maintenance and can't afford to sell and leave. This in turn result in house in said neighborhood degrading furtger and people with the means to fix them being unable to buy and fix because the current resident won't leave.I'm not sure by which mechanism you refer to the real estate market being hurt by. Again, I don't the solution to homelessness is giving away keys to empty houses (many of which in Baltimore are condemnable). Do you mean the real estate market would be hurt because no one wants to live near mentally ill people? Because mentally ill people don't take care of their property and so values go down?