L.A. council members propose taxing landlords who leave homes vacant

Re:L.A. council members propose taxing landlords who leave h... by xondono on Friday June 21, 2019 @02:41AM (#20240399)

There’s an important point missing not only in this article but on most conversations on this topic (we had similar proposals in Barcelona), and it’s how long is the mean vacant time.

Given the size of LA, it’s not unlikely that 100k homes is the result of the normal dynamic equilibrium of the city, in other words, these 100k homes are not the same as two months ago, even if the number is quite stable.

My feeling is that these taxes will achieve nothing, and might even raise the cost of rentals, pricing out even more people.

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Re:L.A. council members propose taxing landlords who leave h... by wallace_f on Friday June 21, 2019 @02:50AM (#20240451)

LA towes away homeless people's tiny homes(1). Maybe after another several trillion spent on the war on poverty, drugs and terrorism we will wake up to what's happening here.

1- https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-tiny-houses-sei...

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Re:L.A. council members propose taxing landlords who leave h... by imtringued on Friday June 21, 2019 @05:50AM (#20241157)

Those "wars" aren't meant to be solutions. They are just a way to embezzle money in a way that is politically acceptable and a way to remove poor and mentally ill people from the public instead of helping them.

War on poverty? Just give them a house and food. War on drugs? Just let a doctor administer a safe dose that doesn't make them high. War on Terrorism? Fund their education system and foster good relationships with those countries instead of bombing them.

There are obvious reasons why those solutions haven't been implemented: the population is happy with the way things are going.

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