Yeah, you don't even want me to get started on this. It's not even just
that the empty houses are owned by speculators. The houses many times are
left to become derelict and the government still enforces the rights of the
property owner over the human right to shelters.

Whole communities of abandoned, vacant houses. Meanwhile the shelters,
shanty towns, and satoshi forests are overflowing.

The only glimmer of hope is cities like Detroit that have no ability to
enforce property rights and so awesome legions of squatters have started
repopulating empty neighborhoods.

"A squat is an lonely house that sombody cares enough to make a home."

Jason
On Sep 18, 2014 4:50 PM, "Amir Taaki" <genjix@???> wrote:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
>
> This is part of an economic philosophy known as Georgism.
> The tax is not based on ownership of the land, but a tax from
> restricting others from using it.
> The situation is framed not as a tax on a property right, but as a tax
> on a monopoly right granted with the public.
> You’re granted a monopoly in exchange for contributing money to the public.
>
> Also this is interesting:
>
>
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/03/1061611/-STUNNING-When-a-Single-Image-Cuts-to-the-Core-of-an-American-Injustice
>
> 24 empty homes for every homeless person as of 2012 in the USA.
> These homes are owned by real estate speculators and banks, going unused
> because the property holder finds it more profitable to lock them up
> than to let anyone live there.
>
>
> http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324412604578515382905495900
>
>
> http://seekingalpha.com/article/271265-the-phantom-growth-of-chinas-ghost-cities
>
> Also Chinese ghost cities which exist only to hit GDP targets in a
> country of 250 million rural poor.
>
> Now there's a lot of discussion about universal income in places like
> Switzerland, so money is given to poor to pay landlords rent. So the
> government in this case is effectively subsidising landlords.
>
>
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