• 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    the guy who owns 2-3 duplexes can (and are incentivised) to be as cruel and inhumane as possible by the same capitalist forces.

    if you ask me, rent shouldn’t be a thing. once you paid the value of the house in rent you should be able to claim it as your own.

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      3 days ago

      Based on that definition you never stop paying. Homes values constantly go up. My dad bought a house in the 1970s. 33k.

      Today the house has a value of 300k. Took him 30 years to pay off the original mortgage.

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        3 days ago

        part of the reason house prices are always on the up, is because they agree considered an investment not a basic necessity. so there’s no interest in building more.

        a house shouldn’t cost more than construction cost.