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Vacation homes are an example of hoarding and should be taxed exponentially. Barcelona, for example, has already banned short term rentals starting 2029, and so has my home town, so there are at least some people in power who think like me, and I hope there will be many many more people with my mindset.

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I mean, you can call it hoarding if you like, but that's not a very widely held opinion.

Spain is one of the last places on Earth I'd look to for economic policies. Enjoy your even higher unemployment and additional dying towns after attacking your only notable industry (tourism) I suppose.

There's plenty of housing available in places with no jobs, so mission accomplished in one sense!

Hoarding of housing affects normal people’s lives worse than some economic theory that’s we can see failing in real time. People’s lives are more important than theoretical economic prosperity.

By your personal definition of hoarding maybe.

Enjoy all the housing you could ever want when your town has even less economic activity than it did before!

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