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zoning is usually shit

Yeah you're going to have to pick a specific, regional problem really

and people wont vote to fix it because their property value will fall

Like, lemme use AU as an example

There's a recent surge of homelessness in QLD

zoning is pretty retarded overall

But that's because of the recent flooding and shit

Once that's all fixed up, hopefully sooner rather than later, people won't be homeless again to the same degree

still counted as being homeless, though

In BC homelessness is drug and mental illness driven

So it varies

@Beemann it's the same in VIC, and Melbourne specifically

Also high rents

mental illness is only like 25% I believe

Which is caused by foreign ~~interference~~ "investment"

rent control

and hyperurbanization

so yeah, it varies region by region

yea, cancel rent control. What is wrong with foreign investment

if you just 'homelessness in general' that's a pretty empty statement

It's a common thing you see everywhere now

Chinese buy up blocks and blocks of land

never live in them

at inflated prices

Wait for the value to inflate further

Councils calculate property value as per the inflated rates

Property taxes go up

People can't afford their mortgages/can't afford to buy a house to begin with

Rents go up because of higher property values

speculation in housing doesn't happen as much as people say it does. and we can just tax empty property

It's between 25 and 50% in Canada

Of homeless people with mental illnesses

>doesn't happen as much as people say it does

kak

it is also really hard to find a number on it

yeah, taxing empty property

Did you really just ignore the other half of that wall of text I typed

yea do it

DID

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