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ultima-ratio-populi t1_jdbrv00 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Hundreds Evicted in Isla Vista by New Landlord - The Santa Barbara Independent by Croughman

If people were free they wouldn't pay rent. Not every country is afflicted with rampant landlordism. Countries with high home ownership have negligible levels of homelessness. Hoarding the housing supply is not ethical. If you take something everybody needs and put it on the market, the price will necessarily go too high for some people to afford it. Something everybody needs, you're advocating for denying that for the sake of preservation of the livelihood of worthless parasites. The threat of homelessness to preserve profiteering, that's your idea of freedom.

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RGB755 t1_jdbxpqi wrote

You don’t need crazy high home ownership rates to get the situation under control though. In Germany they’re working on a temporary rent cap to go on top of existing market regulations.

In France they’ve passed laws to tie rent increases to energy efficiency investments.

Plenty of sensible approaches exist to regulate the rental market, some countries just don’t have the political will to use them.

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Ban-Circumcision-Now t1_jdnxsi5 wrote

The problem in The U.S. is that we severely restrict high density housing that would makes houses/rentals more affordable

Rent control would only further reduce new apartment/ housing construction, who is going to take the huge expenses and risk to build new housing when they can’t make any money from it

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ishitfrommymouth t1_jdctt0n wrote

Are you familiar with supply and demand? Without landlords buying up shit tons of properties the supply vastly increases and the demand drops at the same time. Making the homes much more reasonably priced.

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Ban-Circumcision-Now t1_jdny3l1 wrote

Supply and demand still applies and now you’ve created a situation where people can’t rent if they want to, so now you are locking people into an area/home

Realtors would love your idea but wow that’s a huge expense you’ve added to people that move around a lot

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