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"Your home" means the place where you live. It's not the same as "your house", which is a building that you own. Evicting a renter is kicking someone out of the

• justapassenger 6y ago
  “Your” here is like with a chain - as strong as a weakest link in the chain. Creating your home in someone else’s property doesn’t really make it yours overall.
  • asdff 6y ago
    You don't really own your house either. Stop paying your mortgage, stop paying taxes, watch you eventually end up the same as someone who stops paying their rent, just through a slightly different bureaucratic process. Sometimes you might not have the liberty to freely modify your home, much like a lease.
    • justapassenger 6y ago
      Yeah, totally. But you have very different risk profile in terms of likelihood of you being kicked out - your expenses are much more predictable than with renting. Capitalism approach heavily prefers owning vs renting.
      • yibg 6y ago
        I'm not following your point here. Renting is not the same as owning correct. But the topic is rent control, how does ownership play into this?