I'd rather pay five percent of my income in taxes and not have to walk by homeless people because they have somewhere to live and not have to worry about being homeless if I lose my job or eventually retire and have to worry about constantly increasing rent or property taxes on a fixed income than pay around a third of my income in rent so Brad and Karen can go on another vacation to the Bahamas this year.
So brave. Well, I'm off to the power plant, those ukrainian red army soldiers and civilians spinning in their graves aren't going to hooked up to generators by themselves.
Public funding of new housing and home maintenance, people are guaranteed a living place.
There are countless more efficient ways that are just less efficient at generating income for the ownership class. Do I need to run over all the strategies from pre-fuedalism to the varieties of modern public housing?
There shouldn't be a housing market, markets are inefficient, and you shouldn't create winners and losers around basic human needs.
Your problem is you are viewing this as some sort of moral argument. I am not claiming landlords are sinners, Im saying that their class existing is harmful and land should not be commodified as it currently is.
Small landlords of the sort that you described are indeed just making long-term investments that are likely to yield a decent return or become a source of stability as an appreciating asset. It’s the kind of investment that we should want lots of people to be able to take advantage of.
Except by its very nature it is extractive. The renter is always getting fucked over in the situation.
Except life expectancy, women's rights which still haven't been replicated in the west, nutrition, the eradication of homelessness(not the homeless like the US wants to do) political agency for the proletariat, the list goes on.
And lgbt rights in Cuba, east Germany before its collapse, and increasingly in countries like Vietnam and China.
Housing is only constructed because there are landlords.
Bwahahahaha
Oh wait, youre serious, let me laugh even harder
Right wingers stop using rape cynically challenge difficulty level impossible.
Right wingers putting a content warning before talking about a traumatic experience 1/3 of women experience difficulty level impossible
What are you doing to fight rape in your community? How are you fighting the US military, the largest band of rapists on the planet? Facebook posts don't count.