here's my hot take, and I truly expect to take heat for this, but WHATEVER. My "better things are not significantly possible any time soon, so we need to deal as best we can" stance is well known.
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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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Right, "condo boards" are in many ways just as odious as landlords. Like "homeowner's associations", they're perches for power-tripping assholes who think they have a divine right to tell you what you can do with your home, so I'm with you here [1/2]
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There are cultural reasons why a condo association is unlikely to be as laid-back as the most laid-back possible landlord But lots and lots of landlords are not laid-back, and there's nothing really stopping the existence of an association for laid-back people
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