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user-inactivated  ·  2810 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Paris is tripling the tax on owners of vacant houses

That sounds fairly reasonable. What would stop the city from implementing such a policy?





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snoodog  ·  2810 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think in many places voters would vote against that sort of plan because many see low income families as a blight on their neighborhood. The againt campaign would only need to paint low income people as stereotypical overweight family with 6 kids ananoned cars in the yard and drugs problems and people will choose no neighbors to low income now neighbors