Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers
Eq0@literature.cafe 4 hours agoSuch 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.
Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 1 hour 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.
Eq0@literature.cafe 34 minutes 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.