Do you think all of the millions of owned but unoccupied houses are just "whoops it took me a couple extra weeks to sell"? It's ludicrous to suggest it's a significant fraction of the total, or that the suggestion is to require the immediate forfeit of any house when the owner moved out.

no, you put in an application with the local governments for a like model transfer and wait in the queue like a good boy/girl/<pronoun> .

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Strong financial incentives to not possess unoccupied homes. i.e. second homes are heavily taxed, out of state second homes are even more heavily taxed.

Homes under management for long term housing or resale kept in unoccupied states longer than reasonably expected incur penalties.

Homes kept unoccupied due to being priced out of reasonable band may do so for limited duration--every loophole has to be addressed with financial incentives.

This includes reducing the business potential of domestic and foreign private equity groups picking up homes at depressed rates like what blackstone did.

Residential property rental and transactions related to residential property must be way less lucrative.