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by carllerche 806 days ago
The easy solution is to tax vacancy at a rate that makes this strategy not profitable.
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Canada and the UK (among others) have toyed with these kind of "use it or lose it" penalties for unnecessary empty premises. I think they're a great idea, but they don't seem popular, maybe because the benefits are spread widely while the costs are paid by relatively few, but politically powerful, landowners.