More than 13K rent-stabilized units in NYC are sitting empty for multiple years, report finds
gothamist.com
A city Independent Budget Office report examines vacancy data from the state’s housing agency amid concerns of "warehousing."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/12162

Why? Because apparently they need some more incentive to keep units occupied. Also, even though a property might be vacant, there's still imputed rental income there. Its owner is just receiving it in the form of enjoying the unit for himself instead of receiving an actual rent check from a tenant. That imputed rent ought to be taxed like any other income.

        • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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          10 months ago

          Communism brought Russia from a feudal industrial backwater to putting the first people in space in the span like 20-30 years, and they crushed the Nazi war machine in the process.

            • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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              10 months ago

              Literally every other western country had some sort of nonaggression pact with the Nazis in that time period, Stalin wanted to send a million men to Czechoslovakia to stop Hitler there but the allies said no.

              Communist governance is responsible for dramatically increasing living standards of people across the world. A clever trick that capitalists like to do is pretend that all the work done by the CPC in the last few decades has actually been done by capitalism!

              • SootyChimney [any]
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                10 months ago

                A pact that was a necessity when all the Allies rebuffed the USSR, but also a pact that documents show the USSR never even intended to honour from day one.

            • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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              10 months ago

              Poland was invaded by both the Soviet Union and Germany.

              The USSR entered Poland after it was clear the Polish army was collapsing. The alternative was to let the Nazis occupy the whole thing. Britain and France went to war with Germany to preserve Polish independence. If they thought the USSR was just as bad as the Nazis, why didn't they also declare war on the Soviets in 1939?

            • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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              10 months ago

              Poland was invaded by both the Soviet Union

              More like the Soviet Union liberated Polish-occupied Belarus and Ukraine after Poland stole Belarusian and Ukrainian land during the early 1920s. Or are you one of those Polish ultranationalists seething that Lviv is a Ukrainian city instead of a Polish one?

            • Łumało [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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              10 months ago

              My grandmother would be dead or germanified and we would probably be speaking german if not for the Soviet Union.

              They saved Poland dumbass.

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          Go and have a look at Russia to see how how this communist/socialist mindset worked out for them.

          With an 89% home ownership rate? Yeah, damn, it would really suck for 9/10 people to live in a home that they own.

          Almost all the top countries on that list are socialist or were socialist until the 90s. It's almost as if socialism actually results in homes being treated as basic needs for people instead of commodities for landlords to make money off of.

          • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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            10 months ago

            I used to be a bourgeois land owner, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

            Did you see that poor person? Filthy creatures.

        • HellAwaits@lemm.ee
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          10 months ago

          Let me guess, it was also Venezuela's fault too?

          People like you are all NPCs.

    • uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 months ago

      Heres one of the largest housing developments in new york: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-op_City,_Bronx

    • SoylentBlake@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Let's start with pretty much the entirety of millenials and gen z that would love to own a home.

      I mean, then there's the homeless.

    • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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      10 months ago

      Not landlords, because we're imagining a different society than the single model in your aphantasia afflicted head, believe it or not