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  • huppakeeEnglish
    7·
    10 days ago

    Next support building more homes please.

    • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      Which would be the correct solution. Short term rent are only the wrong answer to a real problem (the fact that a bad tenants has more right of the homeower in the end).

      But I will love to see what the EU will say when they will discover that the vast majority of the homes on the short rental market will not enter the long rent market.

      • MacAnus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        9 days ago

        Are you saying that the real problem causing the housing crisis is that tenants have more rights than landlords?

        Also why won’t those homes enter the long term market?

        • huppakeeEnglish
          1·
          9 days ago

          Also why won’t those homes enter the long term market?

          Not sure if he says so because of this, but property owned specifically the short term market attracts very different investors. Short term market = quick gains, that kind of investor may want to sell it as soon the price is right, and put their money in other high risk high gain markets like venture capital. Long term market = slow growth. This is interesting for investors that also look for government bonds. They will likely want to hold it for as long as possible.

          The more scarcity on the housing markets, the more extreme the demand. Building more houses is only financially interesting for the people who do not own a house, since decreased scarcity leads to lower (perceived) value. The real problem is the people with greed have more power than the people in need.

        • Calavera@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          In Portugal and I assume many other countries, if you have a bad tenant, like someone who does not pay, it often takes more than a year in court so you can evict them(sometimes multiple years) , also you can have your house “destroyed” and will be hard to get your money back, so many people who own second homes just don’t put them in the rental market.

          • ranzispa@mander.xyzEnglish
            11·
            7 days ago

            I reckon that is a problem. A fair solution would be to popularize housing occupation again, that way the risk of not renting the houses I much higher for landlords.

            People are very worried about squatters, in my opinion there’s way too little squatters. Where I live there’s not enough housing, yet you walk around and see entire streets of buildings in which nobody lives.