• arrow74@lemmy.zip
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    16 hours ago

    I agree with this, but I’ve always wondered what the solution is for people that do need short term housing. Like going to college or moving to a city on a temporary job. Neither is a situation where you want to buy a house.

    The obvious answer is the revolution happens and property ownership is ended, but I don’t see that happening. So what’s the solution? And don’t say dorms for college students, those regularly charge 2-3x market rates for worse accommodations

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      10 hours ago

      I think there are lots of fair solutions whereby people don’t get to profit endlessly off people’s fundamental needs for shelter.
      Do I think any of them are attainable without any kind of reform that landlords and their apologists would hyperbolise as a “revolution”?
      No, I do not.

      Pick your poison, but unfettered rentier capitalism is a cancer and it has to be stopped.