Graffiti seen in Barcelona, Catalonia
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An important population we need to increase is ethical landlords.
And by ethical, I mean former.
The only good landlord is a former landlord.
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Ban landlord culture and property prices drop.
Kinda sucks for those already with a mortgage. Defending rental culture because someone might lose out now only guarantees that an ever increasing majority lose out in the future.
It's not just landlords pushing it up.
The constrained supply, the low interest rates, the greedy banks pushing bigger and bigger mortgages, government "help to buy" schemes which appear to be a way to help people buy homes, but in effect just pushes the price ever higher...
The centralisation of jobs in certain areas. We have the internet. This could have practically solved the property crisis on it's own, along with overloaded transport systems and pollution, but rich people were losing too much money, so back to the office, plebs.
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You can't really live without air, food and a home, it's a basic need, it should not be something you can horder like a dragon and deny the access to others
It's very interesting this binary thinking in terms of good vs evil, private own vs government own, it's very hard to think outside bourgeoisie ideology?
You said a lot of stuff but I don't think any of it would really help someone who isn't on the same page as you already
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The only good landlord is a former landlord.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I have a pretty good landlord. This isn't an ACAB situation. The problem is the market, IMO, if not capitalism entirely; even if you got rid of landlords (made it illegal to have tenants), housing prices would still be too high to buy a house. Supply-side or demand-side economics are the only viable solution under capitalism.
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I have a pretty good landlord. This isn't an ACAB situation. The problem is the market, IMO, if not capitalism entirely; even if you got rid of landlords (made it illegal to have tenants), housing prices would still be too high to buy a house. Supply-side or demand-side economics are the only viable solution under capitalism.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah, and there will always be a demand for temporary housing. Even if every person has property, tourists need places to stay, you'd need a place to stay if your house is leveled by a natural disaster, it doesn't make sense to jump through all the hoops of property ownership if you just want to be closer to mom's nursing home in her final months, etc.
The problem isn't filling that need, it's making a profit off it.
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Is he hiring? Is he willing to pay a reasonable living wage?
If not he should STFU.
reasonable living wage?
Whoaaaaa hold on there Chairman Adolf Stalin!! Are you asking him to stifle his innovation??
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I have a pretty good landlord. This isn't an ACAB situation. The problem is the market, IMO, if not capitalism entirely; even if you got rid of landlords (made it illegal to have tenants), housing prices would still be too high to buy a house. Supply-side or demand-side economics are the only viable solution under capitalism.
All landlords are bastards
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People who can no longer afford their mortgages would disagree with you.
Edit: I've absolutely no fucking idea why you all think I mean landlords here. You do realise normal people have mortgages right? And if you don't pay them, the bank take your house and make you homeless?
So? Then they shouldn't have gotten real estate to begin with if they can't afford a house. A person who relies on renting property to make a living are leaches living off the working class.
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Yeah, and there will always be a demand for temporary housing. Even if every person has property, tourists need places to stay, you'd need a place to stay if your house is leveled by a natural disaster, it doesn't make sense to jump through all the hoops of property ownership if you just want to be closer to mom's nursing home in her final months, etc.
The problem isn't filling that need, it's making a profit off it.
under capitalism, almost nothing happens without a profit. If you're so sure the problem isn't capitalism, please explain to me how exactly you're imagining things should work.
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All landlords are bastards
..no, that's just what I said is not the case. You must have misread?
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On Airbnb or the garfiti?
Air bnb. Actually, I think street art is pretty encouraged. But not tagging like this.
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under capitalism, almost nothing happens without a profit. If you're so sure the problem isn't capitalism, please explain to me how exactly you're imagining things should work.
I don't know how you got 'this person is pro-capitalism' from me saying 'profit is the problem'.
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I don't know how you got 'this person is pro-capitalism' from me saying 'profit is the problem'.
I said:
The problem is the market, IMO, if not capitalism entirely
but it seemed to me that you were disagreeing with my post when you said "the problem is making a profit off it." I could have misunderstood, and you were agreeing?
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I said:
The problem is the market, IMO, if not capitalism entirely
but it seemed to me that you were disagreeing with my post when you said "the problem is making a profit off it." I could have misunderstood, and you were agreeing?
You think capitalism is the problem, yes? If so, we are in agreement.
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I have a pretty good landlord. This isn't an ACAB situation. The problem is the market, IMO, if not capitalism entirely; even if you got rid of landlords (made it illegal to have tenants), housing prices would still be too high to buy a house. Supply-side or demand-side economics are the only viable solution under capitalism.
We could still have great property managers without landlords. Then you wouldn't even need to be thankful that your lord happens to be one of the benevolent ones.
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..no, that's just what I said is not the case. You must have misread?
Looking at the instances you two are from I feel like I'm taking crazy pills 🫨
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People who can no longer afford their mortgages would disagree with you.
Edit: I've absolutely no fucking idea why you all think I mean landlords here. You do realise normal people have mortgages right? And if you don't pay them, the bank take your house and make you homeless?
Why would mortgage prices go up without landlords?
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Ban landlord culture and property prices drop.
Kinda sucks for those already with a mortgage. Defending rental culture because someone might lose out now only guarantees that an ever increasing majority lose out in the future.
Yeah it would suck to have my house drop in value while I still owe the bank so much money, but anyone who isn't willing to suck it up for the obvious greater good is an asshole.
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Looking at the instances you two are from I feel like I'm taking crazy pills 🫨
Sorry, I forgot to tell you that today is opposite day.
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Get rid of air bnb and similar. It's caused a ton of problems in Japan as well with people buying whole buildings and pricing out existing tenants. There are legal protections, but most tenants, particularly elderly, don't know about them and either pay new increased prices by the new landlord or move out. The government enacted laws requiring a minpaku (think lodging/hotel) license and putting maxes on time, but tons of people still run illegal ones.
A lot of those people seem to be Chinese investors running them off of other sites which has furthered anger and xenophobia against all foreigners. One of the parties that skyrocketed in the most recent election wants to strip property rights from all foreigners and not just investment properties but ALL properties. It's a reaction to getting priced out and the government not doing shit about it. Granted, there are tons of other problems (prices rising weekly or monthly, wages not keeping up at all with inflation and rising prices, and overtourism more generally), but this is low-hanging fruit.
As someone who just bought a house last year (on the market for over a year in the countryside with farmland for which I had to interview and get permits to buy and use), and volunteers in his community, this is terrifying to me. I had to go through tons of extra hoops just for being a foreigner to begin with and now, thanks to fuckhead illegal hotel owners and bad policy, now lots of people want to take the one little bit of stability I finally felt.
