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To everyone who hates the concepts of landlords and rent, what counts as being a landlord? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago by tkk13909@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Does having an AirBNB setup make someone deserving of the guillotine or does that only apply to owners of multiple houses? What about apartments?

Please explain your reasoning as well.

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[–] squid_slime@lemm.ee 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

This was less of an issue before as we could save to buy property. Now we must inherit

[+] KevonLooney@lemm.ee -11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This is the main issue. There's not enough skilled workers to actually make enough houses and homebuilding supplies. It's so expensive and the average person can't do it up to code.

Before, if you had some small amount of money and a lot of time you could just buy a small plot and build a house yourself. Now you'd be an idiot to waste time doing that. No one will buy your handmade house even if it's up to code.

Apartments in cities used to be cheap because the city stank of horse manure and smoke, and there were no elevators. Basically we've made the world much nicer and realized people will pay an arm and a leg for a nice place to live.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Actually the housing crisis has gotten so bad that I've seen quite a number of "handmade houses" sell in my region (US Pacific Northwest). And they're selling for way more than just land value...

[–] squid_slime@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

i blame investors, career landlords, rentals are more profitable than banks.