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Council housing when?
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Build more housing.
Most cities are regulated to prevent more housing being built. You should definitely read on the works of Strong Towns, and similar groups, and how you can help change the landscape of your city
Their website is great and has a ton of details https://www.strongtowns.org/
Doesn't work if landlords just buy that too.
Needs proper regulation
You're wrong, building more housing is THE solution. The vast majority of homes are owned by people who live in them, not landlords. Building more housing is literally the ONLY solution.
Property tax needs to go up exponentially with the quantity that you own
Have you ever, in your life, received a rent decrease because they were matching the economic conditions...?
Abolish Capitalism When?
The core problem is capitalism, landlording is merely a symptom of capitalism.
capitalism is the idea that value comes from ownership, rather than labor. landlording is just the purest expression of capitalism.
I wish something could be done about this.
If only a hero could rise up..
I mean, every year my rent increases and my pay doesn’t (not every year). So every year I have less to spend each month.
The thing that pisses me off is that I’m not Asking to be able to afford a house. I already gave up on that a long time ago. I’m only asking to be able to stay at a place that I’ve been living in for 10 years. And by the way, moving is also super expensive. On top of that, let’s say I did move to a place where the rent is cheaper initially, the rent is gonna be increasing every year there too.
I’m just trying to live a stable, modest life without having a panic attack every time I see her, no tape to my door (which usually signifies a rent increase notification).
I really wish something could be done about this.
I’m fully with you. I just want to have a roof over my head, have some time for hobbies, and be able to afford cheese at the supermarket. Alas, apparently we’re asking for too much! How very selfish of us.
Would you be willing to do it in a town of 3,000 people?
If you have to move to bumfuck nowhere to afford food and housing, the system isn’t working
Have you heard of supply and demand?
This is where your entitlement kicks in. You think that you should magically get access to high-value, low-supply properties before the people living in the areas you deem "not good enough" for you. You already have more than the people living in these areas, yet you think you deserve even more before them.
Greed. Entitlement. Consumerism. Name three bigger pillars of the modern liberal. (and don't say empathy, you people care more about your money and social status than actually helping others.)
And you're going to get mad at anyone who calls it out.
Omg wow ty for explaining basic economics to me!! Where ever would a poor little girlie like me be without your words of wisdom! You’re so right tho, I’m soooo entitled!!! Can you IMAGINE wanting a place to sleep and eat?! The fucking audacity of it.
Great advice btw all the povos struggling to make ends meet should use the savings they don’t have to quit their jobs in the city and move to a “town of 3000” where they can be jobless, without a support network (because poor people famously don’t have dependants and can just fuck off anytime) AND be poor!! Fantastic advice king.
Also empathy is woke and real men would rather kill themselves than ask for help 🥰 that sound about right to u?
See, that's the problem. You people think it's all-or-nothing. You never consider those who have less and feel like you should get more before they get more.
The mere idea of spreading out and improving areas to increase the supply of high quality living spaces is not something you would support. You only support the idea of building up, not out.
If that town of 3000 isn't "good enough" for you, then why should you get more before them? Huh? What are you doing that makes you worthy of it? Oh yeah, that's your entitlement kicking in. Thanks for proving me right.
You're part of the problem. And you get mad at me for calling you out on it.
The real problem is you reduce individuals that don’t share your values to “you people”. You accuse me of not seeing nuance, but turn around and do the same yourself.
You're part of the problem that increases the disparity in wealth, yet you have the audacity to attack people who criticize you for it.
You're entitled. You're greedy. You're a proud consumer. Instead of getting mad at me for point out these facts, you should start to value different things so you're no longer part of the problem.
You accuse me of not seeing nuance, but turn around and do the same yourself.
I bet that sounded nice in your head, but it doesn't really hold any relevance here.
No one is forcing you to raise your prices you cunt.
no, and they're eager to, but I think if they ever tried to not, things would go badly. that's bad for the market and drives down everyone elses profits. there would be a lot of solidarity against them by the class of people that own the police.
"Everyone elses profits" means other landlords and property owners, not people who plan on living in their home.
Why does being a landlord need to be profitable? Why does being privlaged enough to own a human right come with the right to free money?
because capitalism needs to function like cancer. shit's built on old imperialist logics, where you must always be claiming more. red queen's race bullshit. or cancer; pick your metaphor.
it must be profitable because while productivity increases, due to imperial conquest and advancing technology, the profits of the owning classes (remember; this is the literal definition of capitalism-value being produced by owners rather than workers. yes it's insane, they are insane, this system is insane.) must also increase.
the fact the working class have no more to squeeze from just means we get closer and closer to slaves, which is maybe intentional, maybe just a cool bonus for them.
there's a cool poem that explains it. check out part 2 https://poets.org/poem/howl-parts-i-ii
Not necessarily true. There are powerful cultural forces at play that they're not willing to acknowledge, yet alone overcome.
We're kind of in the same boat. We think that if we have more, then we deserve more before those who have less. That's just what these people are doing, only they're doing it way better than us.
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2025
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