Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

• Barbarian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Many people (not all) rent because they can’t afford to buy, not because they don’t want to own property.

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  • nimpnin@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Given a rental apartment with an affordable rent where I could live as long as I want, why would I want to own property instead?

    I don’t want to worry about the plumbing being replaced or the floor having water damage, and that putting tens of thousands of costs on me randomly. I don’t want to speculate what the price of the apartment is in ten years and how that affects my mortgage. I don’t want to not have housing anymore if I get a pest infestation.

    I think it’s the other way round, people own property because it is seen (and often is) the only way to have reasonable housing costs and not worry about having to move if you don’t want to.

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    • ZoDoneRightNow@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      So your issue is that owning a house is too expensive because housing is artificially scarce but you don’t think that privately owned investment properties is the fault of that? Renting will always cost more than the upkeep of a house because otherwise nobody would lease. The only reasons housing prices changing is a worry to homeowners is because housing is artificially scarce and the artificial scarcity changes based on how much of the artificially scarce housing investors decide to put on the market. All your issues with personal ownership of a house stem from other people treating housing as private property that can be invested in.

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      • nimpnin@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        housing is artificially scarce

        Housing is not artificially scarce, because land is naturally scarce.

        Renting will always cost more than the upkeep of a house because otherwise nobody would lease

        On average yes, but you also do not need to account for variability in price due to for example, having to replace the plumbing every 20 years or so.

        All your issues with personal ownership of a house stem from other people treating housing as private property that can be invested in

        This addresses none of the things I listed.

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  • myplacedk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    But in both cases they need landlords, right?

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• Pandantic@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Alternatively, the government can own it and provide it at very low to no cost because they care about their people having somewhere to live.

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  • myplacedk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Until that exists, we need landlords. Right?

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    • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Chicken or the egg?

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