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>>Strato+(OP)
I had no idea who Dan Preston was until Tan complained about him, but given

> In 2022, Preston proposed a ballot measure to tax vacant housing in San Francisco.

I think I might just love the guy. Thanks for the awareness campaign Garry!

>>hughes+U8
Perhaps I could interest you in some rent control too.

>>onepoi+Tm
Ruins market mechanisms too much. Taxing vacancies doesn't ruin the supply and demand equations.

>>Sabinu+jn
> Ruins market mechanisms too much.

It's not just that. It's the way property owners in renter-majority jurisdictions buy off just enough of the renters to keep other measures to raise housing costs on the books, which both erases the benefit of rent control even for the people who have it and screws over anyone without a rent controlled apartment twice.