Imagine a world where you didnt have to be a slave to capital for the right to live, truly horrifying (for capitalists)
Social housing
If no one is allowed to own a domicile in a residential zone intended for one or more people unless they personally reside there at some given point in a year, the prices of houses would be pretty agreeable, and then yes, people would be paying mortgages, which also means they’d own all the equity they are buying into while they live there. Landlords provide nothing but more exploration of people already exploited to death.
more exploration of people
Well that’s a whole different industry with a different issue of exploitation… though there is overlap in a subgenre of ‘alternative’ rental payment.
Now what about people who don’t want to buy.
They sell their house after a year or 6 months or whatever and recoup the equity in it vs getting fucked because they don’t understand how bad renting is.
We could have short term housing options that are just shares everyone buys and sells to live there (so like each apartment would be a share in the building). And just outside companies hired to take care of maintenance and all that. Still would give you private equity in the property and allow easy moving in and out.
Idk that’s just off the top of my head. Straight up though, renting is a scam.
I like the idea, but maybe you don’t remember things like '08. not saying that exact same thing will happen again, but, the point being that you can’t always just sell a house, someone needs to be there to buy it on the other side.
Also, buying means assuming a large upfront cost or a large loan even if houses are cheaper, most people can’t afford to tie up 5 or 6 digit dollar amounts in the hopes they can free it up in time for the move in a year.
The second point you describe is a basically a condo, and they have tons of benefits but also tons of problems. When you live in a condo you have shared maintenance which is great, but you also can get assessments on the building which can drop 5 figure bills on your doorstep.
Yeah I’m just a rando spitballing, besides which we could think even further outside our traditional capitalism box to come up with more solutions.
Society is just a made up thing we all agree collectively to follow after all.
You want to change the system? I don’t get it, within the current system that wouldn’t work. /s
Nobody can have it better than they had it because it’s unfair that they didn’t
How can I have your pudding if I don’t eat your meat???
I get the joke, but I still feel compelled to point out that the alternative is affordable housing (both with rentals and ownership). If congress has the power to cap Baseball salaries, certainly they have the power to cap housing costs. Now we just need to figure out how to get them to do it.
Affordable? It’s an improvement over the status quo, sure, but what’d be even better is decommodified housing.
First step would be to get Wallstreet out of the landlord business.
If idiots were a commodity, this would be our gold rush
Where I live, the thing that annoys me most are all these open car parks that are owned by a private.company.
So like, you drive onto the lot, park the car, and walk away. Well at least everyone used to when they were the public’s.
Now you drive onto the lot, park the car, pre-pay an amount, and walk away.
Nothing else has changed. It’s.still just the same patch of unsecure vacant dirt it always was. But now it’s a company’s patch of dirt they bought to do nothing more to but add a pay station.
They also have to pay for parking conventions to learn new ways to maximize profit, and pay lobbyists to expand or keep the money flowing, or be able to get away with not paying for safety features.
They could get so much more people on board if they were against “landlord corporations” and not just “landlords”. The former is something four out of five would get behind in a heartbeat. The latter is parroting the words of the guy directly responsible for the highest number of immediate human deaths in all of history.
There could be lots more progress if people would think beyond deciding which memes they agree with.
I feel like someone didn’t get the sarcasm.
Or were they just playing off it 🤔
We’ll never know
What’s with the whole anti-sarcasm thing? What’s the alternative? People are just supposed to go around expressing sincere opinions like rubes??
Yes.
