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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I live in a small town in the SE US. I bought my house for $89,900, 12ish years ago. There are 3 vacant houses on my street and they are all listed for $250,00 or more. My house is bigger than all of them. They have all been empty for over a year.

[–] Honytawk 74 points 1 year ago (9 children)

They really should tax empty houses at 100%. You'll see how fast they will sell, and how low the price will go to achieve that.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

absolutely agree. It's insane that we allow corporations to hoard housing and artificially jack up the price. I'm just outside the city limits and I see soooo many homeless people now. A lot of them have jobs too, they just can't afford a place to live. Some local churches have opened up their parking lots for people to sleep in their cars.

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