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submitted 1 year ago by sik0fewl@kbin.social to c/canada@lemmy.ca

In an attempt to deal with an affordable housing crisis, the Dutch housing minister recently proposed a law that would have allowed municipalities to force some property owners to sell their homes only to low and middle-income earners. The problem the policy is trying to fix is one that's particularly acute in Canada.

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[-] weew@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  1. Scale property tax for number of properties owned. Double it per property owned.

i.e. own 2 homes, property tax for ALL homes owned doubles. Own 3 homes, pay 4x property tax. etc. Homes should not be hoarded. And corporations are definitely not exempt, except perhaps before first sale (i.e. they constructed the property) or demolition sale (buying multiple properties for demolition to be able to construct denser units)

  1. Add or expand speculation tax (like the empty homes tax): it should be decently large, like at least 10% of the property's assessed value per year. However, it can be negated based on income tax paid by someone who lives at that location (as reported on their tax filing). There may need to be some additional reductions for retirees/seniors too.

Either way somebody's gotta live and work there to avoid the tax. No "students" owning multi-million dollar mansions.

[-] BedSharkPal@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Why not ban anything past a primary home? It's like at a wedding where everyone gets to eat first before going for seconds.

I guess it's a political non-starter given the number of people who own more than one home...

[-] PositiveNoise@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A grandfather clause could be added, so that 'from now on' people can't buy more than 1 home. But there are plenty of less severe ways to fix the problem. A lack of solutions isn't the issue, anyway. The problem is that rich people who control countries don't want to fix housing problems, since they are often the people benefiting.

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