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| Topic | Twitter to landlords; investing is a risk don't be mad tenants cannot pay rent. |
| averagejoel 08/06/21 12:05:22 PM #118: | dirtydog posted... It benefits both parties. Including the one who gets to live in a home they otherwise couldn't afford to buy, and if renting weren't an option, they'd be homeless.this is so catastrophically incorrect that it must be intentional. first: it's extremely common for people to pay more for rent than they would for a mortgage payment. second: the alternative to housing being treated as an investment (i.e. the thing that creates the landlord/tenant relationship in the first place) is not "every person who would have rented becomes homeless"; it's "all the housing that would have been rented becomes public housing." housing being treated as an investment (as opposed to, say, a basic human right) is what creates homelessness. removing that economic relationship does not create more homelessness --- peanut butter and dick ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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