The debate on empty homes

Summary of the main results of two articles written by Mariona Segú. For one thing, the article ‘The impact of taxing vacancy on housing markets: Evidence from France’, published in 2020 in the ‘Journal of Public Economics’, analyzes the impact of the tax on housing markets implemented in France in from 1999. I, furthermore, the article ‘Sobre els apartments buits’, published in 2022 on the web portal ‘5 Cèntims’ of the Catalan Economic Society, introduces elements of reflection and debate that can be transferred to the Spanish scale. .