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Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents by michaelmrose on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:11PM (#47442637)
If we don't have an excess of housing why should we allow ANYONE even one single property to serve as an unlicensed hotel. If we tax un-lived in property extremely punitively nobody will hold them at all and it should soon be sold or rented out.
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Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents by zozbot234 on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:18PM (#47442728)
I'm fine with taxing both long-term vacant properties and AirBnb at fairly high rates, since both have negative effects on the surrounding neighborhood - the latter to a markedly less extent than the former, of course.
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