I think it has very little to do with overall quality of life and isn't the norm elsewhere:https://qz.com/167887/germany-has-one-of-the-worlds-lowest-homeownership-rates/ …
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But in a pandemic, it would be nice to not have to worry about people in my apt building behaving badly re: social distancing and social protocols generally. This may be the first time I've thought, honestly, "it'd be nice to live in a house!"
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Certainly Bush played on that as he made increased homeownership a priority, and it blew up in everyone's face.
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Yep. Clinton prioritized it too.
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My dad near his deathbed confessed his remorse over signing a racial covenant to buy a home on the GI Bill. Shit goes way back.
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I would say the usuriousness here is directly enabled by the stigma around renting. Maybe it's chicken and egg, tho.
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Oh, it’s certainly destroyed our country. The micro-division of property into tightly-aligned tracts for single homeowners wrecked any sense of communal society we had. We’re 70 years divergent of Western world social politics because of this absolutely racist housing policy
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Our racism walked us right into a pandemic bear trap. We didn’t believe we could be affected by something laying waste to parts of China and Italy - weeks into a real problem. Our local, regional and federal pols were in full denial mode. Why? Were those other victims not human?
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Is rent a control mechanism for landlords?
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