• Koro@lemmy.world
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      While that may be, companies should not be able to have a stronghold on what should be considered a basic human need. Housing is already in pretty short supply, and it’s worsened by the fact that these companies buy a considerable chunk of this short supply and then turn the purchased properties into rentals.

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        “buying one home and turning it into 4 home reduces the amount of homes” and other fun takes.

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          “Buying a house and renting it out to families that were wanting to buy it outright in the first place” FTFY

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            Oh I’m sorry, do 4 families generally get together and purchase a house as a collective?

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          “Buying one home and charging 4x as much for it” is the actual problem, but I suppose you have your head in the sand by default when the large boot of capitalism is on your neck.

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            Strong disagree. People having homes where they otherwise would not is a feature, not a bug.

            If you want prices down, you must increase supply

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      Fuck you you shouldn’t own a goddamn thing with that mentality.

      You bootlickers are the reason shit is bad and was always bad.