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Such an extremist take is difficult to implement in practice. A healthy rental market gives significant power to the potential renters. Key word: healthy.

Low income housing can get taken over by the state but that’s not the only section of the market. White collar workers have also seen an increase in their mobility, for example.

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Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Also, a lot of people explicitly do not want to own their home as that requires a lot of work to maintain it that is hugely expensive if you can’t do it yourself. I do however agree that “house scalpers” should receive a guillotine haircut for free.

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- Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I have a career that required me to move internationally every 2-3 years. I definitely did not want to buy and sell houses at such pace, without even having a credit record in the new country. Scalpers should be treated like cockroaches though.
  
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WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
You’re getting downvoted because your hot take is referring to solutions that would legitimately tackle the housing crisis, and put downward pressure on prices, as “extremist”.

Forcing every future population into progressively new heights of housing and economic insecurity is fucking “extremist”, and if you keep making people’s lives worse you’re guaranteed to spawn some dangerous “extremists”… I’m taking the revolutionary kind, who will be far more destructive and far less forgiving in their hot takes on wealth redistribution.

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