so are you advocating for zero private ownership of houses?
like what's the policy proposal?
I do kind of like that other comment, " nobody gets a second house until everybody gets their first".
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so are you advocating for zero private ownership of houses?
like what's the policy proposal?
I do kind of like that other comment, " nobody gets a second house until everybody gets their first".
This is a socialist sub so yeah no more private ownership of property would be nice
This is maybe true for landlording corpos.
In general though? Sorry, fuck you guys. When I can buy and rent an extra house or two for passive income, bet your titties I'm doing it and I'm not going to feel bad about it.
I don't really want to pay for a house and experience all the expenses that come with it. Owning a house involves paying out of pocket for maintenance whereas when renting, you can have the landlord take care of that for you, and it doesn't involve paying whoever comes to fix your stuff.
Additionally, owning a house would basically anchor me to one location, which gives me less flexibility as a digital nomad.
If you value home equity then buying a house is definitely ideal. But this isn't the case for everyone.
...oh, sorry. I forgot this is Lemmy and that you can't have a different opinion under any circumstance. My bad!
Fuck off, landlords don't do shit and look for every opportunity to screw you out of your deposit. sounds like you're defending your own scummy kind.
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Having no landlords is not a viable option. There are a lot of reasons that people want or need to rent a house for a while. People who know they're only living in an area temporarily exist in pretty large numbers.
The problem is that there's too many people who have made it a business that have over 5 houses on companies with hundreds or more doing it. People having one or two rentals isn't an issue at all in my book. It's the ones who made it a million dollar business that are the issue.