Voters in a California city weigh taxing vacant properties to help ease homelessness – Marketplace.org

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Two weeks after the Oakland City Council voted 6-2 to place the tax on the ballot, officials in the neighboring city of Richmond greenlighted a similar proposal. Owners of vacant properties in Oakland would pay the same amount of additional tax

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