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Joe Biden wants more people to start living in empty offices (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Landlords being allowed to permanently take rentals off the market (by pretending to do construction work on them forever) to artificially reduce supply and drive up prices is a major problem. This practice used to be blocked by inspection laws that were removed.