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Artist housing matcher — placing artists in empty NYC pied-à-terres
100k ft — What is this?
Artist housing matcher — placing artists in empty NYC pied-à-terres
50k ft — Why care?
@madisonteresaaa built a website that matches artists with wealthy owners of New York pied-à-terres, so owners can avoid a proposed vacancy tax while gaining cultural cachet, framed as Medici-style patronage. A provocative two-sided marketplace idea, with comments arguing it helps the rich dodge taxes.
10k ft — Key takeaways
• Expect pushback when a product helps owners avoid a tax
• Policy changes create matchmaking opportunities
5k ft — Tools & techniques
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two-sided marketplace
1k ft — Deep-dive / try it
Is this @nycmayor approved?
@madisonteresaaa built a website that matches artists with rich people who want someone to live in their New York pier-a-terres so they can avoid the vacancy tax.
“How she built it” video coming soooon
Check out Madi’s website. Link in bio.
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So everyone has context: the pied-à-terre tax puts a surcharge on NYC properties worth $5M+ that aren’t anyone’s primary residence — about 10,000 properties, projected to bring in $300M-$500M for NYC.
Now artists are lining up to help these owners dodge it by ‘living’ in the place part-time. The same people who post ‘tax the rich’ are now helping the rich avoid taxes — as long as they get a free apartment out of it. Can’t have it both ways
Transcript excerpt
Okay, so here's the website. It's so that you can live in rich people's houses in New York and they don't have to pay the vacancy tax. And they can put artists in, so it will up their aura points. That's the exchange, right? Like they look cool for funding artists. Is this real? Yeah, this is real. This is like the historical information on how this is worth. Wait, really? Yeah, this is something that they did in France. Like the Medici's would let artists live in their house for free. To avoid taxes, also? No, to just like make them look cooler so poor people want to try to kill them. The artists can apply here and we'll say that we'll like match them to a place to live. I'm actually so done, dude. This is so great.