Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’

• Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d rather the word homeless never existed

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  • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then how about you stop contributing to the problem by hoarding properties you don’t live in and exploiting those who can’t afford to, for profit?

    No?

    I didn’t think so…

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• howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure you mean that you’d like a world with no landlords and not a world where short term housing solutions don’t exist. No rent would imply the latter. Unless you know of a way to do it without paying rent?

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  • basmati@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Community housing that’s fully tax funded. Common houses or public houses have been around for millenia, until the last couple hundred years really.

    Oh and “the tragedy of the commons” is literally propaganda made up by a literal feudal lord.

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    • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How did that work when it came to deciding who gets the more desirable housing versus the less desirable ones? Or those who are not from the area and don’t pay taxes to cover the housing?

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      • basmati@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Let’s work on getting people housed before faffing about with pointless nonsense like more or less desirable housing. When even the victorians has lower homelessness rates you don’t get to worry about desirability.

        Second point, who cares? If they’re living there now they pay tax there now. It does not matter they didn’t pay tax before they lived there, that’s how all other services work. You don’t pay for the roads in a town you just moved to until you’re moved in.

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