OPINION

Unused properties

While boosting the housing stock is recognized as the only way to control real estate prices, the state remains the owner of the largest stock of vacant real estate.

It’s time to find a way to put half a million state-owned properties back on the market. Not only for the sake of the revenue that will end up in state coffers, but also to deal with the scourge of unaffordable housing.

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