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by cakeface 939 days ago
Tax the billionaires. Tax the vacant real estate holdings at the high end. Tax short term rentals.
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We lost net 10 of them costing hundreds of millions of dollars already. Short term rentals were basically banned outright. Not very many vacant real estate holdings, and how are you going to prove that they were sufficiently vacant -- going to roust them all at night?

City needs to actually get its act together to become more efficient.

> Tax short term rentals.

Careful.

Don't fuck over the transient or temporarily (permanently!) displaced with these broad strokes.