Imo if you own more than the house you personally reside in, you can go to hell.
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What if I find myself in a situation when I have 2 houses? How can I become a better person?
Sell the house
To whom? Greedy renting corp.?
If that does happen then the one deserving of the guillotine shifts onto Greddy Renting Corp
Agree. But neither of us will be guillotined outside of wet leftists' dreams
If I deserve the guillotine under those circumstances then so be it.
Until you actually do
No, I was a hypocrite once. If I am found to be a hypocrite then I deserve that punishment.
The very point of punishment is to tell people how to avoid it. There's no sense in accepting punishment for things out of your control
As an example of the problem, no one in my entire social circle has any hope of ever owning property, and many of us are just barely skirting homelessness. Unfortunately this is extremely common in the same world where some people own multiple homes. If you found yourself in that situation, I imagine the best course of action depends on where you live, but a good choice might be to convert your property into a non-equity low-income housing cooperative. There are lots of other options though, the main thing is just to get it into the hands of people who need it.
The only hope I ever have of owning property is my mum dying :(
And even then, she currently owns the property, not the land, so there's still land rent
Sell the house to another person.
This tbh
I kind of find it funny that people on Lemmy are so strictly against owning multiple houses, while it was completely ordinary for many people in my country (Croatia) to own two houses while the country was under literal socialist government (Yugoslavia).
What if I have a secret family?
IF yOu ArE ANtICAPiTaLIST Why dO yOU HavE A JOb? energy I'm getting from this post.
No, I don't think renting out your first home is a grave issue, but it's a snow flake in the avalanche for why housing is unaffordable. Housing is either a necessity that should be affordable, or an investment that grows and grows in value. Society has to pick one. And it would be obviously ruinuos for the status quo of housing to outpace inflation to continue.
No single drop of rain believes it is responsible for the flood.
Perhaps the OP intended this, but I have seen the snowflake version of this much more commonly than yours:
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
I prefer the rain one better tbh
Just put a limit on the prices. I still get value from the house i lived in before i moved(especially because maintaining a house costs a lot of money) and stupid landlords cant hike prices up.
i think the "who is getting the guillotine?" is malicious framing. i assume u just worded it that way because it sounds funny but it still has effect of making ppl more reluctant to voice criticism.
no landlords should be killed. their private property should be transfered to a public ownership model and portions of their financial wealth should potentially be seized. ideally all housing would be made public but as a transitionary step, at least private housing should be.
for your examples, since we currently dont have good options for simply making those houses into public property, with the peopl who previosly owned them getting dibs on living there, its fair for them to keep the houses as private property for a while, without living there. letting other people live there for the meantime is also a good idea. just let them live there for free, under the condition of keeping the house livable and paying for upcomming costs. maybe offer yourself as a hireable manager for the house, if you want to get moeny out of it. why should people have to pay you for using something you dont need, if thats not reducing the value?
and yes, i am aware that being ethical with ones private property is hard, because its discouraged by current policies and public mentalities, but that doesnt mean its something we shouldnt strive for, on an individual and grander social level.
I have literally seen multiple people here within the past few days making jokes about killing all landlords.
Jokes != policy.
oki, thats either really messed up or just ppl joking because they are mad, without actually believing it.
like when ppl say eat the rich they dont actually think rich ppl should be eaten
I really hope that's all it is.
Except that it isn't malicious framing to some on Lemmy.
Renting isnt the problem. If tou own two houses and an apartment and rent out them except the one youre living in that isnt really the problem. When a single person owns a whole city thats the problem. Most people rent out houses/apartments as a small passive income. If its your only form of income that means youre not really contributing to society. Youre getting money for an asset that already exists.