@LolOverruled ("Lolo") wrote:
wouldn't a vacancy tax in the city be better than this? this type of effort seems destined for failure because basically anyone who owns a house on long island is gonna fight it
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For decades, New York suburbs have had total control over the kind of housing being built in their borders, a practice with roots in Jim Crow.
These zoning laws are making it virtually impossible to build the housing New York needs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/opinion/housing-new-york-city.html?smid=url-share