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People say landlords provide a service that is providing housing to another person without them having to pay the full cost of homeownership. Yet, because the landlord is not only covering their costs but extracting as much profit as the market will allow, the cost of renting is pretty damn competitive with the cost of ownership. So to answer your question,

Are landlords supposed to protect people from increasing costs of home ownership?

Yes, that is the way most non-landlords justify the existence of landlords to themselves. The alternative is to acknowledge that landlords exist only for the sake of enabling the owning class to generate capital for themselves by exploiting the working class.

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BenLeMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
O-kay. I can think of a myriad of other reasons than sheer cost why I might not want to buy a home straight away. But I see how the graphic kind of makes sense in the way you describe.

I’m not a big fan of landlords, by the way, and the instant downvoting for asking a simple question is extremely rude. Doesn’t exactly foster community engagement, guys! 😑

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- Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  I can think of a myriad of other reasons than sheer cost why I might not want to buy a home straight away
  
  Me too and you make a great point. The problem isn’t with renting homes as a concept, it’s with renting from a private owner at market prices. Publicly owned housing for rent at maintenance cost-prices would eliminate the exploitative relationship and still allow people to rent for as long as they want.
  
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- causepix@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  They’re fake internet points, you don’t get anything for them. You said something and people expressed disagreement. Don’t sweat it.
  
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