Comment on Rent is theft
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 days agoYou 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).
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Who pays the upfront costs? Big taxes?
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.
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?
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Yup. Or coops.
What if someone can’t afford rent? I’d rather see the government eat the risk than see people go homeless.
No, because if you pay rent, your rent becomes someone else’s capital. If you pay off the debt, you invest in your own property.
Who says you can’t transfer the home to someone who buys in? That’s an advantage of coops.
Landlords usually don’t do that. They hire handymen to do this, so why canwt that be done by the person who lives there?