[jlangenauer]

One of the other nice features of Swiss rental law is "imputed rent", which is rent the government assumes you have collected even if the property is empty, and upon which you are taxed. Discourages keeping properties empty.

[robertlagrant]

Getting people to pay income tax on income they don't earn might be a good solution to unemployment.

[oblio]

> Getting people to pay income tax on income they don't earn might be a good solution to unemployment.

That's not equivalent, I hope you're being sarcastic.

People who can afford not to rent out an expensive property are almost by definition multi-millionaires.

[robertlagrant]

> People who can afford not to rent out an expensive property are almost by definition multi-millionaires.

Those people (and those properties) do not make up all, or even most, of the picture.

[thfuran]

Through higher suicide rates?

[futureamish]

They're always free to sell.