If you can afford 3 houses, you can afford the extra tax on 2 or all 3 of them. And if you can’t, maybe you don’t need hat many fucking houses…
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BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago3 houses could be free (1 home, 1 for summer, 1 for winter)
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 days ago
thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
The problem that there are many homeless outweighs the problem that somebody wants to have a holiday home. Soliving the homeless problem by not solving the holiday home problem is valid.
Zink@programming.dev 5 days ago
I think many people (USians in particular) need to have it described to them this simply.
It’s just assumed in so many situations that somebody’s right to enjoy their legally-acquired property supercedes any concerns about the life or suffering of others living in the same system.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
property rights do outweigh the suffering of cityfolk
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
This is true, but if I take the top comment, we have 28 houses/homes per homeless person - subtract the 2 holiday homes and you still got 25
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Buy 25 homes, get a free homeless person.
Sonor@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Gotta catch them all
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 days ago
Nah fam you got three homes you can pay up
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Don’t forget how many people own three homes in the first place. You might need their votes.
Also, if one inherits their grandparents home and wants to give it their own children but must wait for 2-3 years, they might be forced to sell too.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 days ago
The number of people who have three homes on this country I doubt is a huge number. And to be honest most of them are probably right-leaning anyway.
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I have been trying to get a good grasp on how many people own second homes, and there seems to be some real uncertainty about this. About 6% of homes in the US are not the first deed to a home a person, or couple, owns. However, upwards of 40% of people report owning a second home. We aren’t really sure what is going on here. Clearly 40% of the population do not own more than one home, and considering that the really wealthy often own 5+ houses, there is just no way. However that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some problems with the data collection on how many homes are owned by people on multiple deeds.
From what I have found seems the most thrown around estimate is somewhere around 7-8% of homes are owned by people who own other homes, and that group like makes up around 8-10% of the population. But who knows, there are many people who are on deeds, but don’t truly own the home, and them being on it is a security/convenience measure. Bleh.
chocrates@piefed.world 5 days ago
Shit good point. Through multiple deaths I am a fractional owner of 3 properties, and I can't afford to be a homeowner