If no one is allowed to own a domicile in a residential zone intended for one or more people unless they personally reside there at some given point in a year, the prices of houses would be pretty agreeable, and then yes, people would be paying mortgages, which also means they'd own all the equity they are buying into while they live there. Landlords provide nothing but more exploitation of people already exploited to death.
Now what about people who don’t want to buy.
They sell their house after a year or 6 months or whatever and recoup the equity in it vs getting fucked because they don't understand how bad renting is.
We could have short term housing options that are just shares everyone buys and sells to live there (so like each apartment would be a share in the building). And just outside companies hired to take care of maintenance and all that. Still would give you private equity in the property and allow easy moving in and out.
Idk that's just off the top of my head. Straight up though, renting is a scam.
more exploration of people
Well that’s a whole different industry with a different issue of exploitation… though there is overlap in a subgenre of ‘alternative’ rental payment.
Imagine a world where you didnt have to be a slave to capital for the right to live, truly horrifying (for capitalists)
Shudder
You want to change the system? I don't get it, within the current system that wouldn't work. /s
Nobody can have it better than they had it because it’s unfair that they didn’t
I get the joke, but I still feel compelled to point out that the alternative is affordable housing (both with rentals and ownership). If congress has the power to cap Baseball salaries, certainly they have the power to cap housing costs. Now we just need to figure out how to get them to do it.
This would be a quality post on r/ancap101 if I was not banned.
If idiots were a commodity, this would be our gold rush
Social housing
Where I live, the thing that annoys me most are all these open car parks that are owned by a private.company.
So like, you drive onto the lot, park the car, and walk away. Well at least everyone used to when they were the public's.
Now you drive onto the lot, park the car, pre-pay an amount, and walk away.
Nothing else has changed. It's.still just the same patch of unsecure vacant dirt it always was. But now it's a company's patch of dirt they bought to do nothing more to but add a pay station.
They also have to pay for parking conventions to learn new ways to maximize profit, and pay lobbyists to expand or keep the money flowing, or be able to get away with not paying for safety features.
How can I have your pudding if I don't eat your meat???
They could get so much more people on board if they were against "landlord corporations" and not just "landlords". The former is something four out of five would get behind in a heartbeat. The latter is parroting the words of the guy directly responsible for the highest number of immediate human deaths in all of history.
There could be lots more progress if people would think beyond deciding which memes they agree with.
