Hoarding living accommodation for the purpose of profit.
Landlording for an office or shop could perhaps be justified to be for-profit but housing is a human requirement and hoarding it for-profit is unethical. All landlords are bastards, unless by some unlikely chance they’re running their business as a nonprofit.
There are other human requirements too, but it’s only landlords that get the bad press.
Monkey paw, there are no landlords – now almost nobody can afford to live anywhere. For this reason, shouldn’t one blame the housing market (and all its participants) as a whole, not just the ones who rent out their properties?
Of course, if we can socialize housing, or at least require that if you own a house you must live in it, that would be the best. But in the meantime, I don’t really see the objective problem that landlords specifically are causing, they seem to be doing a service to everyone as far as I can tell. I blame the high price of housing instead.
Hoarding living accommodation for the purpose of profit.
Landlording for an office or shop could perhaps be justified to be for-profit but housing is a human requirement and hoarding it for-profit is unethical. All landlords are bastards, unless by some unlikely chance they’re running their business as a nonprofit.
There are other human requirements too, but it’s only landlords that get the bad press.
Monkey paw, there are no landlords – now almost nobody can afford to live anywhere. For this reason, shouldn’t one blame the housing market (and all its participants) as a whole, not just the ones who rent out their properties?
Of course, if we can socialize housing, or at least require that if you own a house you must live in it, that would be the best. But in the meantime, I don’t really see the objective problem that landlords specifically are causing, they seem to be doing a service to everyone as far as I can tell. I blame the high price of housing instead.