Tax vacant properties! Stop letting large corporations withhold housing from our community! Housing is a human right, it is a necessity to live, and we will never fix the unhoused problem without it.

The city can fine me if my car is parked on the street and hasn’t moved in over 72 hours. Why should this only apply to the kind of property that belongs to the middle and lower class? If a parked car is bad enough to warrant intervention from the state, how much worse is a neglected property that poses a fire hazard, attracts vagrancy, and contributes to housing scarcity? This is long overdue. Incentive long term holders to lease, build, or sell rather than holding back our city’s development for their own private gain.

Sacramento deserves a thriving city, not a ghost town!

Landlords need to pay taxes for unhoused units. Why are our buildings empty and not housing people? We need some standards.

I strongly support this measure. Downtown Sacramento needs to use these vacant spaces and landlords holding onto high rental prices will only perpetuate the issue. Small businesses and much needed housing can benefit from a vacant property tax. These spaces must meet the needs of the community and reflect the reality of the market.

Many of the commercial areas here in the greater Sacramento area are complete eyesores. Whenever I visit a specific neighborhood, I go to experience what interesting businesses and community projects they have to offer, not hang around empty lots that used to be a grocery store.

On the residential side as well, it's ridiculous how many empty houses there are with nobody living in them because people who have been living here for decades got priced or driven out by landlords, specifically corporate ones.

Please add this tax for vacant properties and help resolve the blight in Sacramento.

I strongly support a vacant property tax. Turnover is vital to upward mobility. If landlords cannot get tenants at the rent they desire, they should be encouraged to adjust to the market. Vacant properties cause rent to increase - it's simple supply and demand.

I support Agenda Item 4, including the Vacant Property Tax (LR25-004) and stronger enforcement.

Vacant properties hurt neighborhoods and worsen the housing crisis. This measure would push owners to rent, sell, or redevelop unused properties.

Enforcement ensures fairness and makes the policy effective.

Please move this item forward. Thank you.

If property owners can't make use of their property in areas of the city that need development, they should be taxed for the inconvenience they're causing the community. So many vacant properties are help in key areas of Sacramento that would be of use for development of housing. New Rochelle, NJ is a good example of a city that used development to increase their density and increase happiness of residents. Sacramento could look to their example.

I strongly support this measure! Sacramento deserves to be better than a ghost town, held hostage to landlords' stubbornness about high rent prices. Businesses are shut out and landlords have no incentive to make their properties attractive to customers, pedestrians, and locals. I'm tired of driving through Sacramento and seeing so many empty buildings and lots.

Vacant properties line the busiest parts of downtown and midtown. It is a blight to our city and this tax is extremely necessary to encourage landlords to keep their rents attainable and properties occupied! Small business is being driven out of Sacramento due to high rents and we have more vacant buildings than ever before, I’d like to see that changed.

I SUPPORT A VACANT PROPERTY TAX! Please!

Filling vacant properties with housing and business will develop Sacramento into a thriving community at the center of our State.

I am writing in support of Agenda Item 4, including both the proposed Vacant Property Tax Measure (LR25-004) and the enhanced monitoring and enforcement program for vacant lots and buildings.

Vacant properties burden neighborhoods in many ways. They contribute to blight, invite unsafe activity, and diminish the vibrancy of our communities. At the same time, our region faces an ongoing housing affordability crisis. It is unreasonable for properties to sit empty while residents struggle to find safe and affordable housing. A vacant property tax would provide a clear incentive for owners to put their properties to productive use, whether by renting them at market rates rather than artificially inflated rates, selling them, or redeveloping them.

I also strongly support a monitoring and enforcement program. Without proper oversight, well-intentioned policies lose their impact. Ensuring consistent inspections and meaningful penalties will promote fairness for property owners who maintain active, safe, and occupied spaces.

Taken together, these measures represent a balanced approach: discouraging speculation and neglect while generating revenue that can be reinvested into housing and community services.

I urge you to move forward with this item. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Respectfully,
Jessica Wall

Property owners should be strongly encouraged to keep their buildings and spaces occupied. These aren't private stocks in some portfolio, they are part of the fabric of our community.

I support a vacant property tax

Real estate holding leads to inflated prices for everyone. In the midst of a housing crisis, corporations must pay the price if they wish to hold land that could be housing, or really any productive land. This should not include land which has ecological value, as such places are dwindling, especially in a city.

I am strongly in support of this measure. We need to discourage sitting on property and leaving it in disrepair.

i support productive land use