Message from @killerqwerty
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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
That doesn't matter
The home is being used
Which is the aim of the policy
It's to force people to rent out, or sell their empty home
Such an easy policy to loophole around
Typically gov beaurocractic pointlessness
notice how the warnings of oversupply in london will cause price drops in the city back in 2015 ... and now the london prices are steady/dropping ... theyre blaming brexit 😛
no it's not though, I just list my place of residence as that house for a week, it's still not being used
Set a minimum occupancy period then
It must be used for X months per year
Before it is considered "occupied"
There, you can't just change it weekly.
if anything the oversupply should have caused a much bigger drop... seems like brexit is keeping properties buoyant
somehow
also, you do know people already pay tax for each house they own?
Yep
We're just going to increase the tax amount
Through that new tax
I have family
Force them to rent or sell it