{"id":2656,"date":"2022-12-02T01:21:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T01:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2022-12-02T01:21:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T01:21:03","slug":"taxing-property-vacancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/taxing-property-vacancies\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxing Property Vacancies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is happening? This November voters in San Francisco and Berkeley approved a tax on vacant properties. The goal was to tame property speculators and to make more properties available to rent. The tax is aimed directly at &#8220;investors who profit from housing without adding to supply.\u00a0&#8221; San Francisco&#8217;s vacancy tax is modeled after Vancouvers which since 2016 has raised more than $86 million for affordable housing programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important?  Tax revenues from the vacancy tax in San Francisco will fund rental subsidies for low-income tenants &amp; affordable housing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/finance\/cities-like-vacancy-taxes-despite-mixed-results?utm_campaign=Newsletter%20-%20GOV%20-%20Daily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=234528995&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--4D-9elBVefr5EO_sg45nF99cmpmpFTFjzQRSRogkRKTm0XrF2YpJURo_onrw5JaRLfV-EnW00beYX1ujx3wDhlamRqQ&amp;utm_content=234528995&amp;utm_source=hs_email\">Governing | Cities Like Vacancy Taxes, Despite Mixed Results<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening? This November voters in San Francisco and Berkeley approved a tax on vacant properties. The goal was to tame property speculators and to make more properties available to rent. The tax is aimed directly at &#8220;investors who profit from housing without adding to supply.\u00a0&#8221; San Francisco&#8217;s vacancy tax is modeled after Vancouvers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2657,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions\/2657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}