We should really start by limiting that. If we start treating housing as a basic right, which we should, there’s zero reason a company should be allowed to own housing to profit off of. It’s a far bigger problem than my landlady who owns five flats. We can talk about limits for people like her later.
For sure. But we don’t even consider water a basic right and concede unlimited water rights to mega corporations before reserving water access to the local population. So I have no hope for that to happen with housing…
So limit those, too. A company can only own X properties. Above Y number of properties owned, Z% of them must be income-based. Go after any company getting around this with shell companies and shit. It’s a solvable problem, no one wants to tell the fat cats no though.
The problem is most houses are being bought by huge companies, not people.
We should really start by limiting that. If we start treating housing as a basic right, which we should, there’s zero reason a company should be allowed to own housing to profit off of. It’s a far bigger problem than my landlady who owns five flats. We can talk about limits for people like her later.
For sure. But we don’t even consider water a basic right and concede unlimited water rights to mega corporations before reserving water access to the local population. So I have no hope for that to happen with housing…
So limit those, too. A company can only own X properties. Above Y number of properties owned, Z% of them must be income-based. Go after any company getting around this with shell companies and shit. It’s a solvable problem, no one wants to tell the fat cats no though.