Landlords should have to pay income tax on their rental properties regardless of whether they're rented out or not. ( gothamist.com )

JasSmith , 10 months ago

This is just tinkering around the edges. We need land value taxes. This is a guaranteed way to solve these massive housing crises occurring in so many Western nations. LVT ensures expensive land is utilised better. Either by highly productive businesses, or higher density dwellings. Either way, society makes more efficient use of the land, and prices are constrained. It's an excellent way to ensure land banking is disincentivised, and that rentals don't stay vacant. Even Adam Smith was in favour of an LVT. Economists are almost unanimous on its efficacy. The only reason we don't widely deploy them is because it will hurt house prices and voters don't like that.

uniqueid198x , 10 months ago

landlords don’t like it either. At least in NY, the lanlore lobby is incredibly strong.

Olgratin_Magmatoe , 10 months ago

A LVT/georgism system would instantly kill the profit margins of all landlords around the country, so they will do everything in their power to prevent it from happening. All the more reason to do it.