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?

• RunawayFixer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I assume that everyone who wants to own a home wants to own a home and many of those aren’t able to. That’s the current reality.

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  • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    and I distinctly said that it should be “a right”

    Yes, you did, but you said it as part of an answer to the question “why are landlords considered parasites?”, and you explained that those who own more homes than they can live in are parasites. The logical conclusion (would be that it should be outlawed to be a landlord.

    So, how am I to understand that? Should there be a quota, an acceptable amount of parasites so to speak?

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    • RunawayFixer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Heavily tax buying and owning homes as investments. Also heavily tax vacant homes in regions with a housing shortage.

      Basically regulate it so that prospective buyers who are buying a place to live in are significantly advantaged when trying to do so, while at the same time discouraging others from buying up those homes as investments.

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• greenhorn@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m 40 and have friends my age who rent because they don’t want to own even though they can afford to. I’m not sure what percentage of renters are like them.

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• Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  We can worry about that when there’s a lack of places to rent and homelessness is down.

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• Mojave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  People will always have a chance to rent since apartments exist, but people do not have a chance to buy houses

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  • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    People own apartments too. If you can’t own more than one home, surely apartments would also be covered by that?

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