Maids, cleaners, janitors, and sanitation workers are all the most important people of civilization by far. Even 12 hours without them is VERY noticable and they simply need to be highly compensated for it
'Six AM', 1930 - William Wolfson
three years ago today, a new me was born
Check out this fucking shit
CHOO CHOO ALL ABOARD MOTHERFUCKERS the transfemme glow up train is leaving the station
Can I throw one in here?
2012-2020 2 years on HRT
If I may...
2016 -> 2023; 2 and half years on HRT 🏳️⚧️
I'd say it worked out pretty well for me 🤷♀️
Fuck it. Feb 14 2021 -> Dec 31 2022
A little over a year on E
Decided to use my favorite pre transition photo from just before my egg cracked. Tbh I made a very pretty boy. I just like being a pretty girl more :3
Jan 2019 - June 2023 (2.5 yr HRT)
2000's nu metal bassist to goth gf pipeline (i do need to play more bass fr)
Oct 2014 -> June 2023 (abt 6 years HRT)
posted on this before, but i took some new bice photos of myself recently, and who am i to deprive tumblr of my cuteness :3c
Nov 2019 -> June 2023. 3.33 Years E
Not my best pics tbh but w/e
This thread is the cutest
Here's my lil Sept. 2019 -> June 2023
hey so if you start to see a big exodus here and you’re confused? here’s why, elon literally just killed twitter. unless by temporary he means like, a few hours, this is it for the website legitimately. I’m gonna start using this site even more (sorry for how annoying i’ll get lmao) because advertising on there is effectively dead
Under the new rules, homes that are not occupied for at least six months of the year are subject to a tax of one per cent of the property’s assessed value. The deadline to rent out empty dwellings was July 1.
Fazli said many of the people he has talked to are thinking of renting or selling their properties. He recently met with a woman who owns three empty properties in Vancouver — and says one of them is now listed for rent, another will be listed shortly and she is thinking of selling the third.
“This is a scenario of someone who is kind of in a panic now and needs to rent them out,” he said. […]
amazing
Why were they empty?
they’re meant to be investment properties, bought, left empty, and then sold a year or few later for huge profit as housing values continue to rise. it’s a massive part of the bc housing bubble, and why despite so much new construction it’s still so difficult to find rental housing
the fact that these landlords are panicking because they might have to actually use their housing properties as housing rather than finance capital is deeply funny
It should be more than a 1% tax rate though. I want it to be 100%. Torture them.
So this article is from 2017. Wanna know how it worked?
According to the most recent census data, Vancouver’s percentage of homes that aren’t occupied by usual residents dropped from 8.2 per cent in 2016 (25,502) to seven per cent last year (23,011). That marks the first decline in two decades, and Vancouver’s Empty Homes Tax (EHT) is being credited as a primary influence.
Introduced in 2017, Vancouver’s one per cent tax on empty dwellings — properties unoccupied for six months of the year — was implemented to encourage real estate investors to transition their properties to long-term rentals rather than having them sit unused.
Although industry experts are divided on how much vacancy taxes contribute to increased housing supply, a report by the City of Vancouver found the number of vacant homes dropped from approximately 2,200 to 1,600 between 2017 and 2020 after the tax was introduced.
Meanwhile, Vancouver’s EHT generated $33.6 million in revenue in 2018, $23.3 million in 2019, $27.9 million in 2020, and $20.8 million as of December 2021, helping to fund affordable housing initiatives in the city.
After staring out at one per cent, the tax was increased to 1.25 per cent in 2019 and more than doubled to three per cent last year.
So, fuck yeah it helps! Reduced empty homes, they’re raising the tax, AND using it to help fund affordable housing.
It’s a start.
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every time I see gorram stupid AI fearmongering I promo my stuff
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