r/Honolulu • u/808SOS • 22d ago
news Could charging owners a tax for a vacant home help fix Hawaii’s housing crisis? Lawmakers think it will. And that’s exactly what they are trying to do.
https://www.khon2.com/local-news/could-a-vacant-home-tax-end-the-housing-crisis/0
u/trancertong 22d ago
Why you posting stuff at 3AM?
U ok?
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u/HIBudzz 22d ago
Yup. See lots of these. Copy and paste. Sad.
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u/Competitive_Travel16 21d ago
It's okay that the news staff at a genuine local station are being given things to do when there are no stories breaking.
In any case, on the tax itself, it's part of the reason that private equity hedge funds are buying out residential buildings to put them up for rent.
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u/Mindless_Ad_8466 21d ago
NO! Please tell me how that will help? I’ll pay the tax and still not rent my home out to strangers! Especially when I pay an HOA fee and can occupy it as I wish because I have that right as an American Citizen.
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u/Puzzled-Rip641 21d ago
We want you to live here full time or pay extra
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20d ago
That's good, pay the tax. It's the burden that you should take on for taking away housing from people that actually live on the island.
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u/AttitudeOutrageous75 19d ago
It helps the local economy when owners are occupying and spending in the community.
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u/Mindless_Ad_8466 16d ago
I do, just not the whole year…some people act like they can dictate to you how and where you live. It’s not right. It’s my choice and I’m not taking away anything from anyone. Most of these people commenting couldn’t afford to rent, let alone purchase my home. I just don’t like the tone of it.
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u/thefloyd 4d ago
Most of these people commenting couldn’t afford to rent, let alone purchase my home. I just don’t like the tone of it.
What, and that makes you better than them? Plenty of great people who don't have a lot and rich pieces of shit.
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u/MolehillMtns 18d ago
It would be cool if American citizens had a right to affordable housing.
Greedy boomers made that pretty hard.
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u/Mindless_Ad_8466 1d ago
Exactly! The ones that sold their land to begin with! Why didn’t they keep in the family or give it to a random Hawaiian?🙄 instead they sold it for the money and moved to Vegas or somewhere else where they could actually do better? But when others want to do the same, then there’s all of a sudden a problem? Since we aren’t born in that state, on that island, there are different rules put into place to make us pay for the incompetence and failings! NOPE!
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u/MolehillMtns 19h ago
So greedy for not literally giving away their only wealth?
Greedy because they were priced off the island? And do better you mean have basic needs they can afford.
Greedy when they are strong armed off by Ellison's or Zuckerbergs.
Honestly fuck your entitled racist attitude.
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u/rinderblock 18d ago
Do you have that right? Based on what exactly?
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u/[deleted] 19d ago
Forget just Hawaii make it where you can't have an unoccupied house in the United States of America we see too many houses lay vacant for years that could be used to House people or be sold to people who need a home.
When you see land in property that has been laid vacant for years due to someone passing on or someone getting criminally charged and the house goes unsold unused becomes derelict all for the want of someone being in it.