The actual take I have: The way of life best suited to averting most major social issues (climate change, social isolation, right wing politics) - urbanism - will not be possible without landlords in the next several decades
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I know what everyone's immediately going to say, "but, Ellie, housing COOPERATIVES or government entities can own high rise buildings!" Several responses to this: 1) government is good. That's true. Minus full communism, which ain't happening, all housing won't be gov't owned
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2) I am not aware of any banks offering mortgage loans on high rises to cooperatives. Those are the two, fundamental, practical points: only for profit corporations can build the kind of units most suited for human flourishing right now. BUT ALSO
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3) I do not want to live in a collective,cooperative,or any other situation where people are more in my business than they need to be.I want to live in a studio apartment in a high rise and mind my own business.This is most likely to happen with well regulated corporate landowner
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A cooperative is going to be prone to the very types of policing and interference with personal life that a corporate landlord avoids. Yes corporations can discriminate, but 1) mostly they're too busy 2) this can be solved with regulation
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Even if we could regulate out the collective's ability to police a resident's life, I and a lot of people do not *want* to be "building equity" in a home. I'm absolutely aghast at the prospect of what would have happened to me had I bought a house in NJ when I had a good job.
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Renting, when it works properly, gives a person the most freedom within anything remotely resembling the current system, to move around and do as they please. The problems with it are failings of regulation.
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I'm resigned to the fact that we'll probably never have enough money to buy a place, but then again I hate yardwork and building/equipment maintenance, so renting is our best option.
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You can own your living space as property and not have a damn lawn, and you can do so while also outsourcing most maintenance tasks and taking advantage of economies of scale -- that's the whole idea of what condos are
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Of course a lot of pro-ownership people hate condos and think of them as a scam -- "How do you really own your home if you have a condo association enforcing rules on you and charging you money every year" But this is a general problem we run up against with leftist policy
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I mean yeah it really is a fact, not just a conservative talking point, at some point socializing risks and taking advantage of economies of scale and all that good stuff does Take Away Your Freedom It's a tradeoff
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