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What really kills communal spirit is low rate of home ownership. I can walk down my street and tell who rents vs who owns based on the front yards. People who o
by ericmcer 4y ago
What really kills communal spirit is low rate of home ownership. I can walk down my street and tell who rents vs who owns based on the front yards. People who own actually invest into making it nice, and will be out front gardening or wave when you walk by. Why would you do any of that when you're going to be gone in a year or two?
It makes more sense that people riot and burn their own communities when you realize they are just renting everything they have.
- thimkerbell 4y agoI think what destroys communal spirit is a sense of futility, a sense that good deeds get discouraged or outright punished. Whether that's just local to some environments, I don't know.
- cycomanic 4y agoMany countries have much higher rates of renters and still more communal spirit, so I don't think you can just attribute it to renting. One thing that those places typically have is protection for renters so they have an actual long term perspective. In contrast to other places where your landlord can throw you out or raise rent with little notice. Moreover in many places renters can't even make improvements to their house, I mean in Australia you are not even allowed to put a nail in the wall when renting.