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   Simon Elvery (simon@bne.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 13:06:08 JST Simon Elvery

   Proposal to start referring to 'affordable housing' simply as 'housing' and all the rest as 'unaffordable housing'.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 13:29:26 JST Rich Felker

     in reply to

     @simon It's hardly even that. "Unaffordable housing" is not providing the function of "housing" (providing shelter/home to someone who doesn't already have it) because anyone who can afford it already has other options (if not a second or third) and is purchasing or renting as a lifestyle statement not as housing.

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     Ben Buchanan (200ok@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 13:29:42 JST Ben Buchanan

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     @simon lots we could do -

     'landlord' becomes 'rent seeker'

     owning large numbers of properties changes from 'property portfolio' to 'house hoarding'

     'negative gearing' for rent-seeking house hoarders becomes 'tax evasion'

     and so on...

     (noting that modest levels of investment can be exempt, unless caught price-gouging/rent-bidding/asset-sweating etc. it is *possible* to be a good landlord after all. people choose not to be.)