• Catsrules@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Your assuming everyone wants to own property over renting.

    House and property ownership has a lot of responsibility and expenses involved. Your water heater breaks well there is $1000+ your roof needs replacing there is 30K. All of that goes away when you rent as it isn’t your responsibility.

    If you own property it can be harder and more risky to relocate. I know a few people that bought in 2007 and then were stuck as they couldn’t afford to move because they were upsidedown on their house.

    Not saying renting is all sunshine and roses. I personally would rather own then rent but home ownership isn’t for everyone.

    But I do think it is a major problem when you have a few companies buying up all property so no one else can afford it. But I don’t think being a Landlord is inherently evil.

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          1 year ago

          Correct, but only one mountain can be climbed at a time. We have more reliable food sources than housing sources right now.

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        1 year ago

        In a perfect world sure, government is fully funded and runs smoothly people care about the everyone etc… etc…

        But in reality I really would be very hesitant to want to live in that world. It is very scary to have a single organization control all your housing. At least with the way it currently is if you don’t like your landlord you can go somewhere else. If the government owns everything your kind of stuck dealing with the same organization no matter where you go. Governments are not immune to corruption and can screw you over even worse in some cases then an organization.

        In my opinion the best solution is many private citizens and small rental companies combined with government enforcing laws protecting both parties. However one big issues I am seeing is huge companies buy up everything in a small area and build a monopolies on rentals. That isn’t good either.