What to do with cheap land: How about nothing?
Critics say that by putting too little value on land, the city is making it easy for owners to sit on vacant lots – which are often a blight to the neighborhood – indefinitely.
Critics say that by putting too little value on land, the city is making it easy for owners to sit on vacant lots – which are often a blight to the neighborhood – indefinitely.
“There’s nothing to be gained by these properties sitting empty for an extended period of time.”
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Critics say that by putting too little value on land, the city is making it easy for owners to sit on vacant lots – which are often a blight to the neighborhood – indefinitely.
Houston’s ambitious ‘One Bin for All’ plan seeks to build a better way of coping with bad trash behavior – by making it easier for people to just toss their stuff and not have to think about it.
The data has been amended to include three, not one, categories of “homicide.”