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.
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.
nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Housing is not artificially scarce, because land is naturally scarce.
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.
This addresses none of the things I listed.