I have an idea! why don't you start taxing apartment buildings based on their rent assuming that they were at full capacity. for instance, if you have an apartment building with 100 rooms available renting at $2,000 a room, and your tax rate is 10%, tax that landlord $20,000 a EDIT: month, not year!

instead of having tons of empty apartment buildings because the landlords refuse to lower rents in order to maintain the property value of the apartment, maybe you will actually fill up all of that living quarters!

I have an idea! why don't you start taxing apartment buildings based on their rent assuming that they were at full capacity. for instance, if you have an apartment building with 100 rooms available renting at $2,000 a room, and your tax rate is 10%, tax that landlord $20,000 a year!

instead of having tons of empty apartment buildings because the landlords refuse to lower rents in order to maintain the property value of the apartment, maybe you will actually fill up all of that living quarters!