{"id":195890,"date":"2008-06-07T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/07\/good-government-policy-from-the-last-place-you-would-expect\/"},"modified":"2008-06-07T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T15:32:00","slug":"good-government-policy-from-the-last-place-you-would-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/07\/good-government-policy-from-the-last-place-you-would-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Government Policy from The Last Place You Would Expect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Specifically, the Washington, D.C. City Council, which has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/phoenix\/othercities\/washington\/stories\/2008\/06\/02\/daily36.html\">voted to double the property tax on vacant properties<\/a>, to $10\/$100 evaluation (that&#8217;s right 10%, it had been 5%,  as compared to $1.85\/$100 for commercial properties, and $0.85\/$100 for residential properties).<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Council has made it more difficult to get an exemption, cutting back on the numbers of exemptions granted, though there is still a 3 month exemption for a property for lease,  a 1 year exemption for residential property for sale, and a 2 year exemption for commercial property for sale.<\/p>\n<p>In many inner cities, vacant properties blight the landscape, and this is a very good way of dealing with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specifically, the Washington, D.C. City Council, which has voted to double the property tax on vacant properties, to $10\/$100 evaluation (that&#8217;s right 10%, it had been 5%, as compared to $1.85\/$100 for commercial properties, and $0.85\/$100 for residential properties). Additionally, the Council has made it more difficult to get an exemption, cutting back on the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1088,985,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-real-estate","category-regulation","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}