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Really I don't understand why anyone buys or rents, both seem risky and fraught with expenses.

• beatpanda 11y ago
  Because most cities in the U.S. are trying their hardest to make it illegal not to, in yet another move to subsidize the profits of land owners.
  • sliverstorm 11y ago
    I was attempting to humorously hint at the fact that everyone needs somewhere to live, and that's the chief function of your house or apartment. It's like we forget about that sometimes.
    • beatpanda 11y ago
      I get that you were joking, but this really is no joke. In California we're currently trying to get an affirmative right to sleep written into our laws, and we've failed to advance it two years in a row. And in the meantime cities in the U.S. are working really, really hard to find new and innovative ways to make it illegal to not pay rent or a mortgage. It's true that everyone needs somewhere to live, and I really, sincerely think that public land should act as a fallback. Currently, the fallback is jail, and that isn't working.