“If you can afford to come and buy a million-dollar home, and leave it empty for eight or 10 months at a time, then hey, you can afford to pay more, a surcharge, or a surtax.” Wong, who said there were high vacancy rates in parts of Vancouver in spite of a shortage of affordable housing, said that asking part-time residents to pay if they wanted to leave their expensive homes empty was not a “penalty”. “I would not say ‘penalty’; I would say it is a duty towards this city,” said Wong, 53, who won the mayoral nomination of the left-leaning Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) on Sunday.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:47:27 +0000
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