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		thekyle 50 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US will ban Wall Street investors from buying sing... If the goal is to reduce the number of vacant homes, then why not create a tax on those specifically. Corporate owned homes and vacant homes are not the same thing at all.

standardUser 50 days ago [–]

If a home isn't the sole primary residence of a person, it's essentially "vacant" and should be taxed, imho.

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