• WraithGear@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    you are applying immunity of criticism of a persons actions, based on what a person is.

    Land lords owning more properties then they need taking them off the market causes systemic harm. at no point in that equation did their status as an immigrant or not, have any bearing on the action nor the outcome.

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      15 hours ago

      who determines the number of properties?

      what if a landlord buys up 1000 properties and rents them out below market rates, is that systematic harm?

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        who determines the number of properties?

        The number of properties is generally 1. You generally don’t need to live in more than one house. If you’re working in some kind of situation where that’s absolutely necessary because you’re staying in distant places for extended periods of time, you’d need some kind of special exception.

        Once everyone (or pretty much everyone, barring people who desire to live as nomads) owns a house, we can talk about letting people own vacation homes.

        what if a landlord buys up 1000 properties and rents them out below market rates, is that systematic harm?

        If they’re making a profit, yes. If they aren’t making a profit, no, but they won’t be doing it for long unless they’re getting funding from somewhere.

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        2 hours ago

        yea… most of the time the cost of rent is lower then there houses market rate, and it still didn’t change anything about artificially raising that said rate. you didn’t change anything about the problem at all!