• rekabis@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    If a home is unoccupied, it should be a squatter’s right to occupy it.

    If you can’t be arsed to find a tenant for a place, that place should be open season for tenants!

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      6 months ago

      So let me get this straight.

      If I spend my hard earned cash on a house. For any reason I leave for a while. Maybe my work requires I relocate for. (It doesn’t matter what the reason is). Because I’m not there that means you can move in?

      Talk about seriously entitled.

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        6 months ago

        What’s even more entitled is you thinking you have a right to shelter you don’t even use when hundreds of thousands nation-wide cannot afford shelter due to people like you hoovering up unused homes.

        You know what your attitude is called? Parasitical and greedy.

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          6 months ago

          You do realize that some people get temporarily relocated for work, right? If I have to do a job for 3 months in Minnesota, it isn’t long enough to rent my place in California because renter’s rights won’t allow me to kick them out when I get back. You think that’s me being greedy and parasitical?

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          6 months ago

          In my example what I was talking about was, while I was away I rented a placed for temporary lodging.

          And that is vacuuming up lodging?

          I still say you are entitled.

          But moving on. Have a good day

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          6 months ago

          So a person earns money and spends it on something, and you think that is parasitic. A different person spends no money and uses something someone else paid for, and that isn’t parasitic?

          I agree that housing should be a basic human right. I agree that people owning many homes is problematic. But owning a second house that you use for vacations is not what is causing a housing shortage. Owning 5 homes and Airbnbing 4 of them IS part of the cause. Allowing corporations and foreign citizens to own homes is part of the cause. Me buying empty land and building a vacation house on land that has sat empty for millions of years isn’t causing a housing shortage.