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renters are a liability.
by mozman 3y ago
renters are a liability.
- ajross 3y agoSo are taxes and trees, but you have to pay them and hold insurance anyway. The point is that society as a whole has interest in the community in which that home exists, and it regulates the behavior of homeowners for the benefit of everyone. "Your home has to have people in it" is, 100%, a valid policy goal. And in extremis, paradigms like adverse possession exist to ensure this.
- sethammons 3y agoI'm sorry, how do taxes or trees destroy the value of a property? Tenants absolutely can ruin a house. Imagine the surprise when you find out the tenants have done more damage to a property than their rent covers. Yes, people need and should be housed. No, that doesn't mean they need _my_ house. Build up public housing resources. If the govt wants to buy my property at market rate and give it away, and I agree to sell, go for it. Otherwise, I hear you have a good retirement fund that you spent years building. I didn't didn't do that, so just give me half of what you saved and we will call it fair.
- nmfisher 3y agoThe reasonable compromise is to heavily tax vacant properties and spend the revenue building public housing.
- mozman 3y agoWe need to improve our mental health care system and get these people working, so they can rent. There isnt a shortage of homes, just a shortage of money to pay rent.
- nmfisher 3y agoIn my home country (Australia), there literally is a shortage of homes at the moment. I don't think a vacancy tax would help much, but it's probably a good idea anyway.
- mozman 3y agoI can't agree with more taxes "just it's because it's a good idea". I pay a lot of money every year in tax, I don't need to pay more.