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?

• ghen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  We’re speaking in hypotheticals already, and you want to get into even more details? The world would be different in this odd scenario so trying to figure out the details ahead of time seems like you just want to make it fail before we even start.

  So I guess my answer would be, the same place as before this problem occurred of having too many landlords. Go back to the 50s and see what they did then. In the 50s a down payment wasn’t even a problem because housing pricing was affordable to everyone.

  We still have plenty of houses in the country. Enough to house every homeless person 4x over, so it’s not a real problem except the owners of those houses that want more and more profit out of thin air make it a problem

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  • darreninthenet@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Because people are talking on here like it would the solve the problem… it’s a much more complex and nuanced issue than “landlords making (too much) profit”. The knock-on effects and interconnectedness in (some) economies all need to be thought through and resolved/have a plan to resolve first otherwise you’re just creating other problems.

    This whole thread reminds me of Brexit (I’m from the UK) and how leavers were saying how simple it would be to leave… this is such a complex problem.

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    • ghen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s the kind of answer people like to give when they just don’t want to do anything to fix it. Who cares if it’s a complex problem, we have really smart people in the world. We can bang this out.

      There’s no reason to haggle over details though because we’re not the people in that room haggling over details. All we need to do is continue to point out that there is a problem and that we want our representatives and scientists who do studies on housing to fix it.

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      • darreninthenet@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I disagree, it’s the details that will bite you on the ass… until those people have haggled over the details we realistically have no idea how many up or downsides there would be.

        I agree it’s a problem and I agree the current landlord situation is very likely contributing but removing that component by itself I believe is likely to cause all manner of problems… landlords are currently parasiting (is that a word?) off a system that’s broken… my view is if you fix the system they won’t be able to parasite on it.

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