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nimpnin@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Housing being a human right has nothing to do with getting rid of rental properties. If anything, having to buy a house is a lot bigger barrier to housing than rent.

What we need is rent to be affordable, and landlords to do their job, i.e. maintain and fix the apartments. There are many ways to achieve this: government owned housing, legal regulation, tenant unions etc. Everybody buing a house or an apartment is not one of them.

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noscere@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I have read your comment more than a few times, trying to respond in good faith, but I am uncertain so I am going to ask before responding:

Are you arguing from a position that housing IS a human right but not related at all to property rights, and the government needs to make housing affordable enough to everyone.

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Are you arguing from a position that housing is NOT a human right, BUT “the rent is too damn high” and the government needs to fix it?

There is a lot of what you have to say that I think I agree with, but I keep reading your comment and I am not sure.

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- nimpnin@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I think housing is a human right but homeownership has nothing to do with it. Governmental intervention or renters organizing or both is required to secure the right.
  
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