Given the housing shortage I’d be A-OK with new government regulations creating disincentives for owning unoccupied property in residential areas. For example, vacant homes get taxed at four times the normal rate until the owner either moves in or finds a full-time tenant.
If they don’t like any of those options they should sell the property to someone who can actually make use of it. Hoarding vacant properties as a financial investment in the midst of a major housing crisis is just obscene.
