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Familiar-Silver8609 t1_iy63ryq wrote

Reply to comment by Loudergood in Why can't vermont tax Airnbn by Old_Ad_1301

Why? Colleges dont employ students. Not the same thing at all.

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Loudergood t1_iy67x6q wrote

Every single worker needs a place to live.

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jsudarskyvt t1_iy8mj66 wrote

But every company is not paid a fee by the worker to be able to go to the workplace and have the job. Your logic isn't present. There is no parallel between an employer providing housing and a university not providing it, Except that the university not providing the housing displaces the workers and makes the employer have to scramble. In many cases anyways employers do provide housing to their workers. But that is out of necessity so they can have workers. If there was housing available the employers would not need to provide it themselves.

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Loudergood t1_iy8q2wv wrote

The students don't pay for housing if they're not getting housing.

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jsudarskyvt t1_iy911eo wrote

The students who don't pay the university for housing pay local landlords top dollar for the hundreds of rental properties near the university. The people that used to occupy these hundreds of rental properties because they were close to their jobs in Burlington cannot compete with wealthy college students and have to move to Plattsburgh or some other surrounding area and the people that used to live locally in Plattsburgh now how to move outwards becasue they can't compete with the ex-Burlington residents. The cycle continues rippling outwards from Burlington. UVM has tons of space and cash to put up a few additional housing developments for their students.

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