Message from @Eccles
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I'd say as long as it's on the market you would be granted grace, but I'm not for the "Tax empty houses" solution
My landlord right now can give me a month to leave as I'm now on a rolling contract
Change the period of time required for a home to be considered "occupied", then that's fine @Joshu
New laws coming soon, Joshu
Or, set a minimum period of occupancy
Such as 6 months.
Then that's fine.
Aims have been met
People are using those empty homes
The biggest thing i'd do to fuck over your rental portfolio, Joshu, would be to end the practice of paying housing benefit to people in private rented accomodation
so cut social housing supply?
Yes that's what he is saying
couldn't you just juggle your place of residence around multiple homes @Nathan James 123 to avoid this tax?
No, "private rented accodomation" isn't "social housing" supply
Or force councils to pay over the odds
For peoples private houses
To buy them
Build them
This is a tax that the building owner would pay @killerqwerty
Because if I knew there was a huge council demand
Damn right I'm holding out for big money
It's to prevent people sitting on empty homes for stupid amounts of time
they already have a lot of social housing tbh
@Nathan James 123 if it's unoccupied, so if I move into it, it's no longer unoccupied.
Problem solved
Someone is using that house
every single development that has occured in the UK over the last decade... 25% of them HAVE to be social housing
Tax payers shouldn't be paying for Rent Seekers investment returns
Which is what we want
Rather than it remaining empty for 10 years
and if I do that with 2 or 3 houses, what is the difference?
to just having 1 or 2 empty houses?
Social Housing needs to be at a price point that is affordable in real-life circumstances
You would be paying the tax, per house.
If you own 6 which are un-used. You pay the tax
It should be the natural competitor to the private rental market
Which increases, the longer it remains empty
its already at something like 25% discount for key workers
"the longer it remains empty" that's the problem, because I'm moving in and out of them an a weakly basis.
Getting all command economy up in here