THREAD: Let's talk about morality and the "job" of being a landlord. There's been a lot of talk during this COVID-19 situation about rent freezes. As a result, a lot of landlords have cried fowl since collecting rent on their properties constitutes all or most of their...
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Look at it this way, the fact that we've so stigmatized renting in our society means that whenever we get an incremental measure of housing reform it's always aimed at homeowners and at trying to relax credit so people can buy a house by going into debt
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The 2009 housing crisis was a result of this cultural bias The alternative model of reform, public housing, nearly always gets strangled in the crib It doesn't provide the "dignity" of home ownership, being a tenant of the government is even lower than just being a tenant
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"Everyone deserves a home that can't be taken away" being an "obviously unworkable" idea seems like a pretty strong statement against any current system... When the pragmatic choices means vulnerable people still die, you can see how people end up radicalized.
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A social right to housing in the abstract is a distinct concept from everyone being the private owner of a homestead
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I’d like to see some kind of wholistic picture of what a post-landlord system would look like. Here are some requirements that any good system should satisfy, not exhaustive by any means and acknowledging that the current system is pretty shitty at many/most of these:
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1) Every person should be guaranteed a safe and adequate home that is habitable year round, which they cannot be put out from except under very limited circumstances such as behavior that endangers the safety of other people in their homes.
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