• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Sure. But no matter how many videos I watch or how many articles I read about how terrible landlords can be, it won’t change the fact that I dont want to own a property and also that there are people who are unable to buy. There are also people who are not in that stage of life where they want to have ties to a house.

    Its not black or white.

    Hence nuanced

    I might be in the wrong place, discussing and interesting topic though.

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      14 minutes ago

      Landlords drive up the price of housing by forcing regular home buyers to compete with investors. That’s why most people can’t afford to own a home.

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      17 hours ago

      You are having a false dichotomy here, it is not either no landlords or no rental properties.

      That is the whole point, you can have all the benefits and more without landlords.

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        17 hours ago

        You might be right. I can’t see it though, besides public housing, which imo isn’t a long term viable solution. At least not to me.

        The thus is, that I live in a country where landlords have been strictly regulated and there are rules to how much rent they can take, how much they can raise it and over what period of time.

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          17 hours ago

          public housing, which imo isn’t a long term viable solution.

          Why not? And also where is the line between heavily regulated private sector and a public one?