• trailing9
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    1 year ago

    Well, didn’t they? They manage the risk that the construction of the house is profitable. You cannot build houses everywhere.

    If you don’t want landlords then you need public housing. That’s where the voters come in.

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      1 year ago

      No, most landlords just buy housing. Construction is usually a seperate business.

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        1 year ago

        Housing is only constructed because there are landlords. If the construction companies don’t sell the properties, they would become the landlords.

        How do you want the housing market to work without landlords?

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          1 year ago

          Housing is only constructed because there are landlords.

          Bwahahahaha

          Oh wait, youre serious, let me laugh even harder

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            1 year ago

            How do you want the housing market to work without landlords?

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              1 year ago

              There shouldn’t be a housing market, markets are inefficient, and you shouldn’t create winners and losers around basic human needs.

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                1 year ago

                That’s what you don’t like. How do you want to organize housing?

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                  There are countless more efficient ways that are just less efficient at generating income for the ownership class. Do I need to run over all the strategies from pre-fuedalism to the varieties of modern public housing?

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                    I would like to know the strategy that you like best.