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You know people can rent single-family houses and buy apartments, right?

by raldi 4y ago

khazhoux 4y ago
Of course he does. The point is that paying rent to landowners forever is also not a great condition, which should (somehow?) be addressed as well.
- raldi 4y ago
  Nobody's trying to "take away homeownership". The goal is to make homeownership cheaper. (Apartments are a kind of home.)
unethical_ban 4y ago
"Buying apartments" is not something that happens for most places in the United States, so no. Condos and townhomes exist, but are not what I call the norm compared to houses and apartments for rent. I know people can rent single-family homes, but I am also against institutional home-ownership. My point is that living-quarters ownership should be more universal. >Nobody's trying to "take away homeownership" When houses come down and apartments go up, they are. When companies holding hundreds of millions of dollars of capital buy houses during a recession and say "millennials don't want to own homes anyway, we're doing them a favor", yes, they are.
- Gigachad 4y ago
  Why is this? In Australia, buying an apartment is an extremely common thing, it’s not as common as buying a house but still a normal thing.
- raldi 4y ago
  30 million Americans own apartments; 40 million rent them. So yes, buying apartments is absolutely something that happens in the United States, and will happen more if the prices come down.
  - unethical_ban 4y ago
    What are you calling an apartment? I know of no one in my life, acquaintance or otherwise, who has equity in a unit of housing in a building with a large number of units. And if someone does, that's typically called a condo, which at least in my 2 million person city is not common compared to houses or rental apartments.
    - raldi 4y ago
      Your anecdotes aside, "About 30 million Americans live in co-owned homes, including 1 in 5 homeowners in metropolitan areas." Source: https://archive.is/eFvQJ https://archive.is/eFvQJ , under the heading, "Condos of all kinds, everywhere"
      - unethical_ban 4y ago
        Ah, so "condos". Like I was asking you. Thank you for the source.
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You know people can rent single-family houses and buy apartments, right?

by raldi 4y ago

You know people can rent single-family houses and buy apartments, right?

Of course he does. The point is that paying rent to landowners forever is also not a great condition, which should (somehow?) be addressed as well.

raldi 4y ago
Nobody's trying to "take away homeownership". The goal is to make homeownership cheaper. (Apartments are a kind of home.)

unethical_ban 4y ago

"Buying apartments" is not something that happens for most places in the United States, so no. Condos and townhomes exist, but are not what I call the norm compared to houses and apartments for rent. I know people can rent single-family homes, but I am also against institutional home-ownership. My point is that living-quarters ownership should be more universal. >Nobody's trying to "take away homeownership" When houses come down and apartments go up, they are. When companies holding hundreds of millions of dollars of capital buy houses during a recession and say "millennials don't want to own homes anyway, we're doing them a favor", yes, they are.

Gigachad 4y ago
Why is this? In Australia, buying an apartment is an extremely common thing, it’s not as common as buying a house but still a normal thing.
raldi 4y ago
30 million Americans own apartments; 40 million rent them. So yes, buying apartments is absolutely something that happens in the United States, and will happen more if the prices come down.
- unethical_ban 4y ago
  What are you calling an apartment? I know of no one in my life, acquaintance or otherwise, who has equity in a unit of housing in a building with a large number of units. And if someone does, that's typically called a condo, which at least in my 2 million person city is not common compared to houses or rental apartments.
  - raldi 4y ago
    Your anecdotes aside, "About 30 million Americans live in co-owned homes, including 1 in 5 homeowners in metropolitan areas." Source: https://archive.is/eFvQJ https://archive.is/eFvQJ , under the heading, "Condos of all kinds, everywhere"
    - unethical_ban 4y ago
      Ah, so "condos". Like I was asking you. Thank you for the source.
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