It was getting so bad, people were actually suggesting building more homes.
    • katy ✨English
      11·
      5 months ago

      every time i see that picture i always think of city planner plays :D

      • Ibuthyr@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        40·
        5 months ago

        That’s usually not the case though. These landlords are usually just some anonymous investor, probably living in Dubai or some shit. The small-time landlords are more an exception and usually not the big problem.

        • Buttons@programming.devEnglish
          11·
          5 months ago

          I was thinking about why a small landlord might be better, and I know there are exceptions, but usually a small landlord is is not going to squeeze every penny out of their rentals, sometimes out of the goodness of their heart, but most importantly, a small landlord has other ways to be productive.

          A small landlord who has a normal job, if they want to improve the world, they do it through their job or personal projects, they build something or create something or whatever.

          A big landlord who does nothing else, they aren’t actually creating anything, they’re just rent seeking and the most creative way they can imagine to improve the world is to rent seek even harder.

          Our economic system gives greater rewards to those who move money around than to those who create things or cure cancer or anything else. The ways of turning a lot of money into even more money are taxed less (usually not at all) than more common ways of earning money like working a job or creating physical goods. The richest people didn’t get rich by creating something that improves everyone’s lives, they got rich by moving money around.

          • Miaou@jlai.luEnglish
            10·
            5 months ago

            Small landlords are the cheapest IME, and often act like they are doing you a favour. Big ones are cold, but at least treat people like customers rather than janitors

      • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
        31·
        5 months ago

        Honest mistake, but you’re probably thinking of a superintendent. They are usually an employee of the landlord, and do things like collect the landlord’s rents and sometimes fix appliances, etc.

      • toynbee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        A lot of YouTubers seem to have recently claimed that their landlords are anonymous corporations with no clear individual proclaimed as owner or responsible party.

  • Peffse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    74·
    5 months ago

    Forgive my ignorance, but an apartment where the landlord is removed and people just pay building maintenance is… a condominium, no?

    • Nommer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      5 months ago

      It’s more like co-owning. Both the owner and the HOA own the property. But at least with my HOA the agreement is they handle everything outside my walls, I handle everything inside.

        • BigFig@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          5 months ago

          HOA is just a name, they take many many forms. My grandparents neighborhood for example has an HOA that collects dues and the dues are used to pay to have the roads repaved or fixed when damaged, and that’s it. No upkeep rules or anything like that, and there’s only a handful of houses in their small neighborhood that look bad from the outside, but that’s those people’s business

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      5 months ago

      If they don’t individually own the property but pay for upkeep and there is no landlord… that’s a housing cooperative, no?

      Squatter mansion.

    • Not_mikey@slrpnk.netEnglish
      12·
      5 months ago

      Depends who owns it / who payed to have it constructed. If the tenets own it and payed to have it constructed, or payed someone who payed someone… Then it’s a condo or a co-op depending on whether you own a unit in the building or own x% of the building which entitles you to a unit.

      If another organization, almost always some form of government, payed to have it constructed and owns it then it is public housing.

      If it’s anything like cities skylines original, houses just pop up according to demand with seemingly no construction cost calculated, probably because it would add a ton more complexity with mortgages and speculative markets etc. for little gain to players who mostly just want to play with trains and metros.

  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.deEnglish
    40·
    5 months ago

    I would have preferred to have it solvable through policy or something. A giant business, with high earning employees would of course raise the average rent if not regulated. I find it rather amusing, that it actually happened in the game as well without being explicitly build in.

    • aStonedSanta@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      My thoughts exactly. Although. Reality is often stranger than fiction. So who knows what’s coming next for us 😆

  • 3volver@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    5 months ago

    Making people in society feel like they own nothing and are getting milked by those few who do own everything is a good way to see things break down, it’s happening real time, we’re watching it right now in the US.

    • Stalinwolf@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      5 months ago

      My wife and I just bought my first home this week. The market is fucking brutal. You think you’re getting in early to view a new listing and there are ten other realtors’ cards already on the kitchen table. Made the highest offer? Fuck you. This guy out of Vancouver offered market price with zero conditions. House is old as hell and really should have had an inspection. OH WELL! SUCK A DICK! 🤷

      We wound up getting exactly what we had been waiting for. House was on the market for 13 hours, we were the first to make an offer, sellers accepted almost immediately. Inspection went well. Detached home in a cozy little cul-de-sac. Lush back yard with a high, solid fence. Dude, I can’t fucking wait. I’ve been in a townhouse with a back 40 that looks like the dormatories of a Russian mining complex.