81632371 t1_j41bgqx wrote on January 12, 2023 at 2:22 PM

Reply to comment by Typical-Radish4317 in What does eviction prevention accomplish. by LongjumpingShot

I'm currently renting a home. I used to own my own home before I moved here. I could 100% buy if I wanted to. I don't want to. I'm not committed to living where I am for the next 5+ years. I'm very happy to have the ability to rent a home and not be forced into a small, overpriced apartment. I used to own a rental property myself and my tenants were also not looking to own and were very happy to rent my property (as they told me many times). Not everyone who rents wants to own.

Typical-Radish4317 t1_j41e704 wrote on January 12, 2023 at 2:41 PM

Not anti renting just anti landlord. Like I said my position is that housing should not be a profit seeking endeavor.

81632371 t1_j4244hq wrote on January 12, 2023 at 5:28 PM

So who am I renting from if there's no landlord? Is the government supposed to own all of the housing stock?

Typical-Radish4317 t1_j425ezd wrote on January 12, 2023 at 5:36 PM

Community owned, non profits and PPPs. Here's a good read for housing done probably as about as good as you can get it. 78% of Vienna's housing is rentals but only 7.4% of all housing stock is for profit without any rent controls. https://housing4.us/how-vienna-ensures-affordable-housing-for-all-with-an-extremely-complicated-housing-system/

YesIDoBlowCops t1_j45t4wm wrote on January 13, 2023 at 10:51 AM

You reach halfway across the world and cherry pick an example while ignoring the disasterous public housing examples in our own city.

Typical-Radish4317 t1_j4609y6 wrote on January 13, 2023 at 12:14 PM

Lol yeah let's never look at things that work extremely successfully to emulate. What a stupid take.