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Barcelona Fines Landlords Who Let Buildings Sit Empty

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Re: Barcelona Fines Landlords Who Let Buildings Sit Empty

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The German constitution mandates that (property) ownership brings obligations for the public good. Ownership is a construct secured by society, so society as a whole must at least partially benefit. As such, keeping a building empty can be considered theft, too.

> As such, keeping a building empty can be considered theft, too. Your assertion makes zero sense even if we accept your thesis at face value. For example, it's absurd to leap from "society mut at least partially benefit" from private property to assert that private property not being used in compliance to your personal taste to be theft. That's just plain nuts from any angle.

You’re absolutely welcome to make an argument how a building kept deliberately empty of tenants over years benefits society.

You can consider that position nuts, but given the amount of public support and legal backing for a current initiative in Berlin to enact eminent domain against entities that hold > 3000 flats, “plain nuts from any angle” seems to be slightly exaggerated.

Re: Barcelona Fines Landlords Who Let Buildings Sit Empty

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While we are at it, lets tax the vacant hours of the unemployed - those evil speculators who are consipiring to restrict the supply of labor. That will encourage them to work and thereby be able to afford all that brand new housing!

We call it the opioid tax and it works pretty effectively at eliminating the unemployed.

the objective of the tax would not be to eliminate the unemployed, but rather to put them to work
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