A lot of people who think their landlords are kind and generous people who provide them housing also seem to think those same landlords would evict them into homelessness if landlording were to go away.
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A lot of people who think their landlords are kind and generous people who provide them housing also seem to think those same landlords would evict them into homelessness if landlording were to go away.
The idea that housing is something that other people give us, that we intrinsically have to pay them for, has poisoned our ability to imagine things as simple as “roommates” or “friends and family living together.”
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HeavenlyPossumreplied to HeavenlyPossum last edited by
Suggest the idea of “community” and it absolutely breaks people. “How can we even have a relationship if it isn’t transactional?”
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HeavenlyPossumreplied to HeavenlyPossum last edited by
Here’s an idea: if you invite someone into your home to live with you, maybe they’re part of the community of people who live in that home and not a customer.
Maybe if that person is contributing to the capital costs and upkeep of the house, they’re one of the owners too and not a customer.
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@HeavenlyPossum "landlords maintain the property" fact check, most landlords aren't skilled trade workers. They usually just hire skilled trade workers, or do a poor job themselves. I honestly would hate capitalism a lot less if I had ever lived in a rental property that was properly maintained, but they don't even fucking bother to learn what that means.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] the freedom to live in the cheapest aesthetic with the most inefficient garbage appliances that could possibly exist