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Why an Empty-Homes Tax Doesn’t Solve the Housing Crisis with Gherardo Caracciolo

If the goal of a vacant-homes tax is to improve housing affordability, it doesn’t work. But if its goal is to improve housing availability, it does. That’s the conclusion of a new C.D. Howe Institute report called “Ripple Effects: The Impact of an Empty-Homes Tax on Canada’s Housing Market”. The authors used Vancouver’s 2017 empty-homes […]

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