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Landlord Raises Rent to Cover the Cost of Never Doing Anything
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this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2025
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I understand the general distaste towards landlords.. but I mean realistically they are necessary, not everyok can or wants to own a house at every time point in life. I am also a landlord and haven't upped the rent during any of the interest hikes, increases in our land tax etc whilst we have the same tenant. May look at reevaluating if/when they move out. Home ownership needs to be a right first, before it's an investment.
Even if not everyone can or wants to own a house, there's no good reason for these houses being owned by corpos or individuals.
Housing is as much basic infrastructure/human needs as is health care, education, electricity, water supply, sewage system, internet access and should be in the hands of the public sector - alas, it most often isn't and that alone should tell you enough.
I'm not saying there shouldn't be corpos allowed to provide service based on the public infrastructure, but the infrastrucure itself would be public in a fair and sane world.
If you can't kick out leeches from abusing public infrastrucure, well, you end up in the world we live in.
Now you can call me communist or think about why the system we have is designed to help the rich getting richer.
This is no natural state we live in. It's an abomomination.
You want housing to be publically managed? Would you be willing to pay the significant tax that would be required to wholly maintain houses, water, sewer, electricity and Internet and landlord infrastructure?
We already do. Nearly every city in america has some form of a housing authority for the inpoverish and the application list for them extends for years because we dont invest more into them.