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Re:LA pays $2600 per homeless tent, per month by tylerhou on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @11:20PM (#27299004)
That blogpost you cited says that there is a 5% vacancy rate. That's well within the normal range. So I don't see how it supports your argument.

https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/musne8/dispro...

Re:LA pays $2600 per homeless tent, per month by mikepurvis on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @11:44PM (#27299160)
Fair— I kind of picked one at random. Obviously part of the point of that dude's effort is that this is a difficult thing to get numbers on. Here's some other coverage around responses to a planned vacant unit tax:

https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2021/02/real-esta...