• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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      Existing apartments would be removed from the market too. $100 per month costs the owner more than keeping the apartment empty, because tenants are a risk.

      If people thought that such a law was going to be permanent, or if there were fees for leaving apartments empty, then many (most?) apartments would be permanently destroyed - either converted to something else (condos, commercial space, etc) or just demolished so that the land could be used some other way.

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        1 year ago

        Where are they living while they save up the several hundred thousand it costs to build one?

        • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          You’re right, the first time shelter was built in human history it was a Blackrock apartment complex.

          How could i forget.

          • MadhuGururajan@programming.dev
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            1 year ago

            in which part of the world can people build tents that won’t immediately be torn down or vandalized? You make being part of society sound like hell.

            • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              Yes because we would decommodify housing and still commodify land.

              Use your big boy brain instead of just the angry part

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            1 year ago

            If you have to go back to before the concept of money was invented, you don’t really have a good point.

            • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              I didn’t.

              Blackrock was the only corporate entity that had the building rights to the ferile cresent.

              If it weren’t for them nobody would have ever had shelter.

              God bless Blackrock