Apparently being a landlord is worse than being a pedophile

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[–]tiny-brown-mug 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I don't know, man... Free or almost-free housing (like, rent that's 10% of income) might actually solve a lot of problems. People still have to pay for utilities and food and clothes and stuff, but extremely affordable housing is one of those leftist ideas I'm kind of on board with.

[–]Jiminy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The fear is people might not work as hard if they're given a place to live or it's too cheap.

[–]OuroborosTheory 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

it's also not something that lends itself to vote-bidding partisanship or can be spun into another culture war--my Alex Jones-loving cousin rants about Blackrock and the damn RED CHINESE buying all the housing stock, but is stumped by the question of what she wants done about it besides talk over us for 30 minutes when we're at Grandma's

interesting how something's been rendered unthinkable when Barry Goldwater wouldn't have really complained about such a policy

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah, but there's a difference between affordable housing and hating a landlord because they require you to pay at all. Worse still, most of these people are hypocrites; they'll rail about expensive rents but if you put any of them in the position of being a landlord, you can damned well believe that they'd be acting the same way with their properties.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Most likely they would be the worst type of scum landlord.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I suspect that they'd be, for starters, extremely discriminatory about who they rent to. Especially if the tenant doesn't vote Dem.