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As someone who is renting right now and doesn’t want to own a home currently, where would I live if not for a landlord? Government housing? What in the heck is

As someone who is renting right now and doesn’t want to own a home currently, where would I live if not for a landlord? Government housing? What in the heck is wrong with someone renting out something that they own?

yazzku 4y ago
Some find it immoral, especially when the landlord has multiple properties, or when, like in the article, they hold up the apartments vacant until their conditions are satisfied. There are also people who are basically social parasites, living off of rent and the work of those who actually contribute to society.
- prepend 4y ago
  Some find any profit immoral. That doesn’t make them right.
  - yazzku 4y ago
    - bilvar 4y ago
      Grown-ups don’t throw tantrums like you do.
      - dang 4y ago
        Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes everything worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: it looks like you've been posting unsubstantive and/or flamewar comments repeatedly. Would you please stop? We ban that sort of account. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.
    - dang 4y ago
      You can't break the site guidelines like this, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that post this way, so please don't do it again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Gigachad 4y ago
  Isn’t holding a unit empty somewhat similar to workers striking until unjust conditions are resolved? If the government is forcing rents to remain under inflation, eventually something will break.
dangerwill 4y ago
Yes, government owned and managed housing. Across the more-left leaning parts of Europe this is not controversial at all. It's mostly a US/UK/Canada thing that "government housing" = "scary and full of drugs" because these governments only ever adopted policies for the very bottom of society, and then left these projects to rot over time.
- tomcam 4y ago
  Where is this happening in Europe?
  - bilvar 4y ago
    [flagged]
- tempestn 4y ago
  OK, but that option doesn't exist here currently. So in the actual situation we're living in, are you actually saying that you think it's wrong/evil for a person to choose to invest in a rental property? IE buying a house for the purpose of renting it out? Because I know a lot of people renting and looking to rent who wish more people would do that.

yazzku 4y ago

Some find it immoral, especially when the landlord has multiple properties, or when, like in the article, they hold up the apartments vacant until their conditions are satisfied. There are also people who are basically social parasites, living off of rent and the work of those who actually contribute to society.

prepend 4y ago
Some find any profit immoral. That doesn’t make them right.
- yazzku 4y ago
  - bilvar 4y ago
    Grown-ups don’t throw tantrums like you do.
    - dang 4y ago
      Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes everything worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: it looks like you've been posting unsubstantive and/or flamewar comments repeatedly. Would you please stop? We ban that sort of account. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.
  - dang 4y ago
    You can't break the site guidelines like this, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that post this way, so please don't do it again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Gigachad 4y ago
Isn’t holding a unit empty somewhat similar to workers striking until unjust conditions are resolved? If the government is forcing rents to remain under inflation, eventually something will break.

dangerwill 4y ago

Yes, government owned and managed housing. Across the more-left leaning parts of Europe this is not controversial at all. It's mostly a US/UK/Canada thing that "government housing" = "scary and full of drugs" because these governments only ever adopted policies for the very bottom of society, and then left these projects to rot over time.

tomcam 4y ago
Where is this happening in Europe?
- bilvar 4y ago
  [flagged]
tempestn 4y ago
OK, but that option doesn't exist here currently. So in the actual situation we're living in, are you actually saying that you think it's wrong/evil for a person to choose to invest in a rental property? IE buying a house for the purpose of renting it out? Because I know a lot of people renting and looking to rent who wish more people would do that.