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So the government has the right to take your money to spend it building housing for someone else? "Housing is a human right" is a lazy, armchair argument that d

So the government has the right to take your money to spend it building housing for someone else? "Housing is a human right" is a lazy, armchair argument that demonstrates a lack of understanding of the housing market.

noasaservice 4y ago
Whereas I'm arguing that housing shouldn't even exist as a "market" to begin with, at least in terms of residential housing. Or at least, prevent companies from owning residential housing, except under stringent terms. There's plenty other places capitalism can take hold. I fail to understand why heavy controls that enable real humans (not made-up on paper corporate humans) to get a residence of their own, is so damned radical. I see what the environment looks like, with RealPage ( https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r... ) and Zillow and Redfin, and whomever else is buying residences left and right. And I want none of it. Burn these parasites to the ground. And damn the "profit".