What if you have a house that's too big, so you convert a floor into an apartment? You're adding to the number of housing units available. Should you be forced to sell a portion of your house/building to whoever wants to live there? Or should you be able to rent it out to someone at a reasonable rate? Do we want rules that discourage people from potentially adding units to the market?

I feel like the "all landlords are evil" narrative is way too simplistic, and that simplistic view turns off people who would otherwise support reasonable limits on landlords and housing ownership. Like, it's obvious that we need limits and taxes on people who own multiple properties, and it's obvious that there are companies that exploit renters and drive up prices, but it's all more complicated than just "landlords evil lol".

[–] Mawks@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I rent my property because it's the only way I could've bought it at my age and I use that money to pay for the mortgage of it while I live somewhere I don't want to (under parent's wing in a crappy city) but angry people rarely if ever consider all scenarios

[–] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So you're keeping home ownership away from someone who can afford to pay your mortgage is what you're really saying.

[–] aikixd@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 year ago

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

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