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gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours agoThere are no “bad tenants”, because that would imply inconveniencing landlords and costing them money is morally wrong. It’s not, it’s funny as hell😭
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
100% they’re bad tenants. They’re also people who never want to own, they’re people that will never be able to afford to own. There will always be a need for land lords
Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
Well… No? You’re assuming a system where you have to pay for housing.
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Which is essentially every where, that’s life.
Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Sure, under our current system. But you said there will always be a need for landlords, which I take issue with. But housing doesn’t have to operate the way it does now. There’s a variety of ways to pay for people to have housing under a money-based system, like through taxes. The soviet union had housing cooperatives. Hell, you don’t even need to go that far, housing prices are currently so high because we allow massive real estate corporations to buy up property to artificially inflate price. Government regulation on real estate as an industry would serve to lower housing prices. At the very least, make it so they can’t just sit on vacant homes.
seblin@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Only within a relatively recent stretch of history, before that you only needed to pay for fancy stuff (think pyramids or castles or whatnot)
sukhmel@programming.dev 6 hours ago
Bad tenants and people who want to rent exist, but the rest I don’t agree with