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?

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GuyFleegman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

This is just a long-winded way to ask “how do we pay for it.” The answer is taxes. That’s always the answer.

Let’s call it 10 trillion total: 20m rental properties x x 500k average home price. If we allocated half annual military budget—400bn—to buying private rentals and making them social housing, it would take 25 years to get through the whole market.

The financial scale of the solution is not so large as to be insurmountable. The US government’s priorities simply lie elsewhere.

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