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The two things are fairly tightly connected. If ordinary citizens can't buy house, how does some other citizen (not corporation) buy one and offer it for rent t
by throwaway049 3y ago
The two things are fairly tightly connected. If ordinary citizens can't buy house, how does some other citizen (not corporation) buy one and offer it for rent to you?
- JohnFen 3y agoYes, absolutely true. I wasn't really saying that not being able to buy a house is a good thing, but I did speak before thinking here.
- dragonwriter 3y agoThere are things besides individual citizens and corporations that could, in theory, own and rent housing.
- ajmurmann 3y agoThere are a lot of individuals who buy investment properties. I have friends who use this as their primary retirement vehicle and own a bunch of rental properties. They are just successful small-business owners and the properties are their private property, unrelated to the business. From last time I saw statistics on this, most rental units were still owned by small landlords.
- throwaway049 3y agoYes quite. But we were contemplating a future where small scale landlords were extinct.
- ajmurmann 3y agoWhy would they go extinct though? This makes no sense.