{"id":397,"date":"2019-06-25T22:19:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T22:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=397"},"modified":"2019-07-12T22:34:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T22:34:31","slug":"downtown-vacancy-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"New Vacancy Tax in San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The San Diego Housing Commission recently proposed a new vacancy tax for owners of vacant<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/politics\/politics-report-a-new-tax-is-on-the-table\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> San Diego apartments<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This proposed tax has the explicit aim of directly tackling the housing crisis in downtown San Diego. By directly taxing homeowners who leave apartments vacant, the homeowners can avoid the tax by merely renting out their previously vacant apartments. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If they choose to pay the fee, the revenue from the newly imposed tax will go to generating revenue for low income housing programs. This project isn\u2019t exactly a novel idea and follows\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/la.curbed.com\/2019\/6\/11\/18660735\/vacancy-tax-empty-homes-penalty-los-angeles\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LA county\u2019s proposed 2020<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ballot measure which imposes a similar \u201cempty house\u201d penalty. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This proposal and others around Southern California reflect a much deeper issue\u2014the affordable housing crisis. The problem itself cannot be more clear, the median price of a single-family home in the San Diego metropolitan area is about $564,000, which makes it the fifth<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/07\/27\/most-expensive-places-to-buy-a-home-in-the-us.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> most expensive metro area in the country<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. San Diego also isn\u2019t a friendly place for lower-class individuals, with a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/may\/17\/san-diego-california-homelessness-mayor-kevin-faulconer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">104 percent increase in homeless tents<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, instead of addressing these problems by releasing working class San Diegans from excessive regulation and taxation, this latest proposal is a sucker punch to the homeowners. As we see individuals and corporations<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manhattan-institute.org\/html\/great-california-exodus-closer-look-5853.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fleeing the state in massive numbers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the newly dubbed \u201cCalexodus\u201d will continue as long as the fundamental problem of affordable housing continues. The city and the state will find out soon enough whether the tax and spend agenda will relieve this suffering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/laurenprofeta\/5097380126\/in\/photolist-8Lrpwf-cabu2N-8nwj2a-8dqyKK-8dtCtd-WPjXpa-8dqjH2-8dtzAC-5ssTLy-7STqbm-7XcErJ-9RGSqT-8dqmhc-2enGkgx-8dqxxR-kVxaG-28RUbeo-e1M8YX-27fj4bs-NhAZL-AeMGrE-4Cfj6C-bzQc3J-4RqMqz-7KN4Y7-fEsd3-asm2wE-cXrJjo-z2ADA-z2Gmf-bysNsC-mZ9QaU-6mLuK7-ctGv8J-hatgwj-yUawx-itWtdM-89StHf-z2ER2-4x6Nwx-eerJbr-z2CvY-z2ALX-27VRXrK-4mssnw-55hFCP-z2z3q-z2H9i-itXhRF-7QP6Gq\">Photo by Lauren Mitchell via Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Housing Commission recently proposed a new vacancy tax for owners of vacant San Diego apartments. This proposed tax has the explicit aim of directly tackling the housing crisis in downtown San Diego. 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