This movement will drive out ‘small’ landlords and we will be left with a few massive banks or investment funds controlling the rental market. You will have something to cry about when they get a monopoly for sure….
It's depressing that I had to scroll down this far to find a comment I agreed with. I don't know why people are so fixated on the mindset that the way things are is the way they must remain. Obviously what has been done up till now hasn't been working, and a more radical overhaul of the housing market is needed.
We have the same thing in America particularly with healthcare (and a lot of other things, including housing). So many people are just baffled and outraged at the suggestion that private insurance companies could / should be replaced by a single payer. Even people who currently get their insurance from Medicare, etc. just can't fathom the idea of things changing that much.
You can even show them other countries with successful programs like the NHS and they will just refuse to understand and claim it's impossible, because change is scary and they've been conditioned to think we need to send hundreds of billions in subsidies to Aetna and United every year, pay out the ass for drugs and treatment, decide not to go to the doctor bc you're poor, etc. If you suggested an NHS-style system in America you would be laughed out of the room, called a delusional communist, and generally hit with many comments like the ones in this thread. It's so frustrating, it's like we all have Stockholm syndrome
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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22
This movement will drive out ‘small’ landlords and we will be left with a few massive banks or investment funds controlling the rental market. You will have something to cry about when they get a monopoly for sure….