Comment on Rent is theft
Emi@ani.social 1 week ago
Think there’s also difference between someone renting their mass bought properties vs someone renting their extra flat for a fair price. Corporations renting properties they mass bought should be illegal.
Riverside@reddthat.com 1 week ago
What’s “a fair price”? 1% over production + maintenance costs is already exploitative, in the sense that rich people who can afford to buy the flats will do so because they will get passive income from it, and poor people who can’t afford housing will be forced to rent at prices higher than otherwise.
Emi@ani.social 1 week ago
Imo students and just people who don’t want to buy. One small flat I saw is like 6k czk a month. But ideally there should be free such flats that are just room and bathroom with showers free to anyone.
Riverside@reddthat.com 1 week ago
The USSR had such dorms for students and people in waiting lists for housing, idk if they were technically free but the fee was ridiculous if it existed. Rent, for example, was 3% of the monthly incomes. I do think we should have such social housing, both in flat-form and in dorm-form, for whoever wants to rent a very cheap housing unit.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They also had an incredibly corrupt and repressive society full of black markets.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 week ago
why is it crazy if someone is willing to pay it?
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If the housing market gets so unprofitable that people aren’t building enough apartments, even though enough land is zoned for building, prices are too low.
That just leads to homelessness.
Riverside@reddthat.com 1 week ago
So, build the housing socially by legal mandate. Only in capitalism “housing is too cheap” can be a bad thing
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’d definitely like more of that. But for such a legal mandate, the government would also have to pay for it. That means rising taxes. I’m okay with that.
But at the moment, we are quite far from that. I’d already be pretty happy if the government would stop selling their governmental buildings. Especially to foreign investors.