| >That happens once every 10 years. They use tax records and other records to estimate it otherwise. Good thing we did a census in 2020, and the housing crisis (and associated allegations about absentee owners) far predates that. >Also people will just not return the form, and once again they have to estimate. Apparently they're pretty persistent. If you don't fill out a form you'll eventually get an enumerator that shows up at your door. >And in places that impose a vacancy tax, they have incentive to lie or deceive the housing authority to avoid the tax. The housing authority is independent from the census bureau. Is there any evidence they share data? >And in my neighbors case for example they come by once every few months to pick up mail and probably fill out those types of forms. So they're willing to go out of their way and lie to the federal government in order to maybe move the lower the vacancy rate by 0.00001%, when many (most?) people (as evidenced by this thread) are going off vibes and likely won't care anyways? I didn't know that foreign vacant homeowners had such a tight knit cabal. |