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If you pay 1% for one house, someone with 2 houses should pay 2%, and a company with 2000 homes should pay 2000%

That would make it increasingly difficult for mega companies to buy up everything and torture the housing market

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[–] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The problem is being a landlord as a job. The problem is rich people buying up housing (or land and building on it) they don't use, in order to rent for profit.

It's about everyone who has no house. All the people who have no alternative, apart from renting from some rich people.

If someone "allowed" others to live in his house, without demanding half their salary, you wouldn't see me complaining.

And the reason that buying or building a house is so expensive, is explicitly because rich people clamber over each other, to make the best investment of their lives: Housing.

[–] MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world -1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

People have a right to invest.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

Housing can be affordable or an investment, not both.

People can invest elsewhere, in markets not necessary for survival.

[–] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

We're saying that maybe, just maybe, basic human necessities shouldn't be the object of speculation.

[–] MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Agreed but we shouldn't prevent people from buying or selling houses.

[–] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 15 hours ago

Nobody's saying that.

We should however prevent the hoarding of residential buildings