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5 points

Not everyone is able or willing to own their property, what would they do if landlords didn’t exist?

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Make it illegal to rent out property you don’t live on.

If you want to rent out your basement, or build a seperate dwelling on your property then you are adding to the available housing and can rent that. Most people would rather build their own equity given the chance, and this would provide rentals for temporary living situations.

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Privatizing the right to have shelter is pretty scummy to be a thing to exist.

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What if I build a house on a piece of land I own and want to rent it out?

The second construction is completed I’m all of a sudden a scumbag for privatizing someone else’s right to shelter? Even though it’s a house I built on my land? Doesn’t make much sense to me.

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You’re moving the goal posts here. Did you buy the land for the purpose of building property? Bad. Did you convert arable land into housing? Bad. Was it a rocky bad piece of land that you invested in to build something more out of it? Good. Housing policy isn’t binary but in most cases the current personal private multiownership model doesn’t help anyone. My perspective is no one should be allowed to own more than one house, and if so anything beyond the first house should be heavily taxed.

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Why would you build a house and not live in it?

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So they would still have a landlord it would be the government instead and people would be pissed when the government increases rent or throws people out because they’re destroying the place or not paying their rent…

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I’d much prefer to have social housing than slumlords that want to make a profit on the rented space while also keeping the value of the building.

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Rent their property from nationalized government services with controlled prices.

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Lol so many people here hate landlords but state ownership is just a step too far apparently

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