Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?

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tyler@programming.dev ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

That’s not my assumption. I know people that only want to rent, they don’t want to own. In that worldview someone owns it.

In regards to paying for shelter, unless you get rid of money, things have to be maintained, that costs money, and someone has to be paid to fix it, even if it’s the government paying a contractor.

The government doesn’t like owning things that require enormous amounts of maintenance. It’s a liability, because they can’t then focus efforts on actually serving their citizens. So if the government is already going to pay someone to maintain buildings, it’s better to not own the buildings and instead regulate in a manner than serves everyone.

That means there will still be landlords. There are still people that want to rent, the government doesn’t like owning buildings, so there will still be people owning and renting their places out.

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