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[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 4 points 11 months ago

This is why there have to be significant taxes on vacant rentals (including short term rentals like AirBNB).

It has to be made more expensive to keep a property vacant than to rent it out and maintain it, without increasing rent.

Rent assistance is just corporate welfare that drives up rent.