One landlord: “How will I pay my bills?”
Their multitude of tenants and their families: “How will WE pay our bills?!”
Landlord: “(dead serious) That’s not my problem!”
Peter Parker: “you’ll get your rent when you fix the damn DOOR!”
I know some landlords that acknowledge it is their problem, tenants dying or failing to pay means more paperwork and needing to find a new tenant, but they don’t really offer good solutions.
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Also, they have excellent music.
Apart from Denmark. I know only one band from there.
Killer pastry though.
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I mean, you can go one further and establish public utilities that ration resources per capita instead of charging a vig on top of the production cost.
Why do I need UBI and wages if I can just claim a vacant apartment and be guaranteed power/telecom, of which their are millions nationally?
We could divert the tens of billions (converted to energy/man hours) we’re throwing away on AI subsidies and everyone can live a comfortable middle class life free of charge.
AI subsidies?
Why do I need UBI and wages if I can just claim a vacant apartment and be guaranteed power/telecom, of which their are millions nationally?
Because almost all of those homes are vacant for a reason. They are in disrepair, or under renovations, or actively looking for someone to occupy them, etc. Of course, there are some places in rural Kansas which are just vacant - but then, these are already dirt cheap. Iirc, there are some towns which will give you the house for free if you live there for X number of years.
So let’s say anyone can request a residence for free from the government if they would like. What happens? Well, first of all, all vacant housing stock immediately disappears in almost all places because - all things being equal - most people would prefer to live alone, rather than living with their family (when they are an adult) or with roommates. And the government can’t force people to live with someone they don’t like - that’s a political non-starter - so if someone ends up residing in a 5 bedroom house, they can just keep rejecting potential roommates the government sends their way. If your goal was to end homelessness, this market trend will immediately stymie your goal - you will still need to build more housing, which will take more time, and people will still be homeless.
Meanwhile, it becomes agonizingly difficult to move anywhere. Want to move to a new city? Well, you’ll be on a years-long waiting list to find a place to live. If it is a city that a lot of people want to live in, then the waiting list will just perpetually keep getting longer. Want to move out of your parents house? You’ll need to find a friend who already has a place, or get on a years-long waiting list.
What if you have special needs, like you are wheelchair bound? Now you need to wait even longer for a place which is wheelchair accessible. Sure, the government might prioritize such cases - but what about cases that don’t neatly fit in a box? Suppose you have a best friend who needs help looking after their child. You want to help out, but you live on the other side of the city, an hour away. So you can never help your friend as much as you want because of the commute, and their child will be grown by the time you could get a place closer to them.
Markets are good because they force people to make choices that balance their desires against everyone elses, which creates a highly efficient mechanism for rationing scarce resources like housing. So people can live alone if they want, or find roommates to save money if they want. They can spend more to live in a hip neighborhood if they want, or spend less to live in a cheaper neighborhood. They can decide how much they value not walking up stairs every day, and choose to pay more for an apartment with an elevator or on the ground floor.
But think of the market!
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I recently learned that my dad used to be a landlord. Problem was, he has a sense of morals, ethics, and empathy. Tennants would be unable to pay rent for one reason or another, but he wouldn’t evict them because he understood that sometimes shits hard. Eventually, he had to sell all his properties to a less scrupulous landlord.
I feel conflicted with the knowledge that I could have had a better childhood if my dad was a worse person.
He could have been the type of parent to charge their children rent once they turn 16.
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Y’all need Georgism.
Remember to tip your landlord (down a staircase)
LMFAO this is so real lol, landlords have their own circlejerk claiming that market prices increased lmfao
(also if someone could help me out, when I upvote a post on Lemmy, it doesn’t show my upvote or downvote or anything even after trying and reloading several times. I’m writing that on this post because it’s happening on this one as well)
We had 7 units in a strata. All we wanted was to cover the mortgage, taxes and insurance. We kept the rents purposefully low, hoping to attract long term tenants. Quite frankly - tenants move when tenants move regardless of leases (you can’t get blood from a stone in small claims.) They aren’t rich like we aren’t and what little rent we got didn’t pay for the cleaning, painting and repairs that we had to do when they moved out. If it wasn’t acceptable to me - it wasn’t acceptable for my tennant. We scraped along for 7 years and finally had enough. We sold for what we bought them for. Landlord tenant laws are different everywhere - lots of people seem to think you are rolling in money if you are a landlord. Bottomline - We were too soft and feel we got taken advantage of - never will we do this again. If you can’t afford your rent, don’t be fooled you can’t afford home ownership either -
They aren’t rich like we aren’t.
We had 7 units in a strata.
Fucking what.
If you can’t afford your rent, don’t be fooled you can’t afford home ownership either
Said the person with 7 rental properties, talk about out of touch.
YOU were the one who couldn’t “afford the rent” by ““needing”” bootlickers to pay your costs as a wageslave. Bugger off, leech.
