They/Them. 29. Queer. I am, in all ways except physical, a goat. Fic writer and gif maker. Currently: Boardwalk Empire, Shadow and Bone / Grishaverse, Black Sails, Succession, The Last Binding
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1/1 Fandom:Last Binding Series - Freya Marske Rating:
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Maud Blyth & Robin Blyth Characters:
Robin Blyth, Maud Blyth, Edwin Courcey Additional Tags:
Minor canon divergence, (aka if maud’s gay awakening happened pre-boat adventures instead), Coming Out, Siblings, Catharsis, Post-Book 1: A Marvellous Light (Last Binding Series), Pre-Book 2: A Restless Truth (Last Binding Series), POV Robin Blyth
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“Maudie. You’re blushing.”
“I am not!” Her hands were determined fists on her lap, gripping desperately at the reins of her blush as though she could stop its runaway canter. Her gaze—tellingly—flicked to the doorway like she’d seen an echo spell of her departing friend. A grin toyed on her face beside the pink flush; she tried and failed to pin it again behind pursed lips.
There really wasn’t much margin for interpretation.
aka: minor alternate timeline where Maud’s gay awakening happens pre-boat, and so the siblings who Don’t Lie to Each Other who’ve been quietly hiding being The Gay Sibling realize they are not, in fact, THE gay sibling
Under the new rules, homes that are not occupied for at least six months of the year are subject to a tax of one per cent of the property’s assessed value. The deadline to rent out empty dwellings was July 1.
Fazli said many of the people he has talked to are thinking of renting or selling their properties. He recently met with a woman who owns three empty properties in Vancouver — and says one of them is now listed for rent, another will be listed shortly and she is thinking of selling the third.
“This is a scenario of someone who is kind of in a panic now and needs to rent them out,” he said. […]
amazing
Why were they empty?
they’re meant to be investment properties, bought, left empty, and then sold a year or few later for huge profit as housing values continue to rise. it’s a massive part of the bc housing bubble, and why despite so much new construction it’s still so difficult to find rental housing
the fact that these landlords are panicking because they might have to actually use their housing properties as housing rather than finance capital is deeply funny
It should be more than a 1% tax rate though. I want it to be 100%. Torture them.
According to the most recent census data, Vancouver’s percentage of homes that aren’t occupied by usual residents dropped from 8.2 per cent in 2016 (25,502) to seven per cent last year (23,011). That marks the first decline in two decades, and Vancouver’s Empty Homes Tax (EHT) is being credited as a primary influence. Introduced in 2017, Vancouver’s one per cent tax on empty dwellings — properties unoccupied for six months of the year — was implemented to encourage real estate investors to transition their properties to long-term rentals rather than having them sit unused. Although industry experts are divided on how much vacancy taxes contribute to increased housing supply, a report by the City of Vancouver found the number of vacant homes dropped from approximately 2,200 to 1,600 between 2017 and 2020 after the tax was introduced. Meanwhile, Vancouver’s EHT generated $33.6 million in revenue in 2018, $23.3 million in 2019, $27.9 million in 2020, and $20.8 million as of December 2021, helping to fund affordable housing initiatives in the city. After staring out at one per cent, the tax was increased to 1.25 per cent in 2019 and more than doubled to three per cent last year.
So, fuck yeah it helps! Reduced empty homes, they’re raising the tax, AND using it to help fund affordable housing.
I’m not a role model. I was briefly a runway model. I hate the AM, I hate the PM, I hate labels. I’m not a hero, ‘cuz calling yourself a hero makes you a self-mythologizing, narcissistic autocrat.
HOBIE BROWN aka. SPIDER-PUNK SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (2023)
The Párisi Udvar in Budapest, Hungary. Arcade/department store/ galleria built 1907-1913, in a mix of styles- venetian gothic, orientalism, jugendstil, renaissance.
