How did you come to this conclusion? If someone is renting it means they they can't pay for mortgage. Otherwise they would've done so. He said, that he needed to make a 20% payment to even get the mortgage. Idk how much money that was for him, but where I live that would be around 130k$. Clearly not everyone has that kind of cash.

And what's your solution? Disallow renting properties for which mortgage wasn't posted in full?

[–] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you buy it, live in it. Stop contributing to the housing crisis. Greed got us here, it certainly won't get us out.

[–] aikixd@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So disallowing renting. So you don't control your property, which means you don't own it but lease it.

This is problematic, since not being able to open your house is worse than having difficulties with obtaining it. I agree that generally having some people own a lot of housing units is bad, but not being able to own a house means communism. And not as a scare, but quite literally, as in definition.

[–] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If you buy it, live in it. That's not communism, that's taking control of a crisis. Feel free to rent out part of the house while you live in it, in fact some places are incentivizing exactly that. But owning multiple homes for profit is the problem, whether it's by corporations or "mom and pop" landlords. It's a problem we can and should fix.