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The solution is a second home tax, which is to be paid, if you do not live in a house for a given period every year. Obviously it needs to be high enough.
This would still allow the super rich to take over a town. So, another idea: A second home cap, which must not be exceeded. Say a village decides they can handle 1% of their houses owned by the 1%, but not more. Once these two houses found their part-time inhabitants, #3 must wait, or go somewhere else. A bit like garden plots, or boat piers. Naturally, this would also drive prices due to scarcity.
I'd rather have a per-person cap. 1 Home + 1 Vacation Home are free. Every Home after gets taxed to oblivion.
Fuck vacation homes. As long as not everybody has a home, nobody should have two.