"Would you say that there isn't a housing shortage? Only a shortage of people willing to pay up for it?"
There are more houses empty than homeless people.
So, there seems to be a bunch of people willing to pay for houses and no living in them.
There are more houses empty than homeless people.
So, there seems to be a bunch of people willing to pay for houses and no living in them.
In some cities we already have second home taxes of about 20%. So why not empty home taxes too?
I’m willing to pay $1 for a kilogram of gold. That doesn’t mean anyone’s interested in selling it to me.