California should tax empty homes and dead storefronts

San Diego's vacancy tax points to a much bigger California problem A lot of California's problems are made worse when homes and storefronts become investments rather than places where people live, work, shop, and gather. San Diego's Measure A is a vacancy tax aimed at one very expensive form of killing communities for personal gain. — Read the rest The post California should tax empty homes and dead storefronts appeared first on Boing Boing.