Vancouver plans to tax empty properties 1% of their assessed value
How can you be said to own anything if you are forced, basically 'extorted' by government, into occupying your own house or not? I guess it is whether you believe in property rights.
If you inspect your property to see squatters or others haven't criminally occupied it, and you maintain it so that it does not cause any harm or damage to your neighbors homes, why this?
More pressure to not own/maintain and just rent or leave the community.
How can a neighborhood that's basically empty fetch any high rents for the units that are not empty and for rent?