Exempting all occupied homes would maybe reduce vacant properties by a little, maybe a lot, but wouldn't make it possible for renters to own instead without multiple other programs.

An issue see is that will incentivize more rental properties owned by landlords, rather than doing much for increasing individual home ownership.
Part of the housing supply issue is landlords buying up affordable housing to rent out instead, a behavior we need to disincentivize imo.

Nothing stopping a less questionable person from taking the planks & building something out of them.
They aren't his, they've been around for a long time, hanging out waiting for people to realize that centering the citizens, from the bottom up, is just common sense.

Growing up on military bases is why my fantasy of a better world involves things like community centers, and tool libraries, and municipal kitchens, and dense housing, and walkable neighborhoods, and free mass transit -

Because none of that is abstract for me. It's just "how things were."

Lmfao I'm a day late but I found the PERFECT meme for this 😆