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   Fire To The Prisons (firetotheprisons@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Apr-2023 22:45:13 JST Fire To The Prisons

   Seeing the responses to a fair too moderate proposal for a national rent freeze is hilarious.

   "Why don't we send landlords broke? That'll fix the problem."

   "Why don't we just ban landlords all together?"

   I mean, yes to all of that, unironically.

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     Fire To The Prisons (firetotheprisons@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Apr-2023 22:45:12 JST Fire To The Prisons

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     "Do you see no benefit in what landlords provide?"

     Landlords don't provide shit. Renters pay off their landlord's mortgages while being completely unable to hang a hook, install a dishwasher or adopt a pet for fear of their lease getting cancelled, all the while doing as little as humanly possible to make living in these places actually tenable.

     Landlords are parasites, pure and simple.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 23:13:25 JST silverwizard

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     • Jay Hannah
     @deafferret @firetotheprisons why would they not prefer to live in a world where housing isn't so expensive people can't afford it?
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     Jay Hannah (deafferret@octodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 23:13:26 JST Jay Hannah

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     @firetotheprisons when my grandmother died, my parents started renting out her house to an elderly woman who can’t afford to buy that house, at below market rate, while going way out of their way on maintenance of the property. They’re losing money renting that house. What would you have them do differently?

     I agree with you that my parents are not typical landlords.