Comment on Rent is theft

• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You could get rid of housing being a means for landlords to profit from and hold housing in a usufruct property relation, and/or in common. Building and maintaining housing can be managed by the community (or be payed for by the community).

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  • CannonFodder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Who pays the upfront costs? Big taxes?

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    • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In a capitalist system, the government could print the money to give out a loan and destroy that money once the loan gets payed back to soften inflation.

      But ideally, building housing shouldn’t be done for profit, either. But I guess that would require capitalism to be abolished. Which would be - again - ideal.

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      • CannonFodder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Who takes out this loan? The person who wants to live in the home? What if they can’t afford to pay it back? Isn’t paying interest on the loan the same as paying rent, except now you’re stuck without being able to move, and no one else is there to fix your roof when it needs it?

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