owns 30,000 homes
That’s a fucking Robber Baron. But also still a landlord.
Nah, I hear he sold avocado toast to finance it all.
Young people:
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law that partially removes some tax credits
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Unpopular opinion you shouldn’t be able to own 30,000 houses.
Counterpoint: Freedom
We should get rid of landlords. Just a quick thought. Spitballing here, I dunno. Could be good, could be bad, who knows?
But what about all the housing they provide?
I dunno I haven’t really thought it through yet but maybe like…what if we had some sort of system that gave everyone a home?
Just spitballing.
Hmmm i think i would like to read your manifesto
Ticket scalpers explain why no one wants tickets anymore
he doesn’t have 30 thousand necks :gui:
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Death by 30,000 cuts
how do libs defend this manifestly evil shit
Death to America
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“Housing can’t be built without money and if people can’t afford homes someone needs to buy them so they can be rented out. This person provides 30,000 homes”
Understandable, but when you say America in this context do you mean Canada?
It’s his forum signature. Not that Lemmy has forum signatures, but that’s what it is.
Death to America
Ah got you, based
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Better future headline: landlord dares to show their face in television
Oh, I’ll take one! I didn’t realize you were offering
Rather than saying what I think should happen to this parasite, I will simply post
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I’m not Canadian, but do you know why they seem to blame foreign investors specifically and not just investors, period? If it’s just xenophobia, then why bring up investors and risk people turning their eyes to domestic investors?
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It’s just racism, plain and simple. The media ran breathless pearl-clutching stories about how lots of Vancouver’s real estate was owned by Chinese investors basically parking money overseas by buying properties and leaving them empty. This was then extrapolated over to Toronto.
The reason the foreign aspect is underlined is because of how dominant the idea of white replacement is in the housing discourse here. If you ask anyone who isn’t Marxist about the housing crisis, you’ll get two responses: it’s either foreign investors buying all the properties and hoarding it so Canadians can’t access it, or the Liberals/Trudeau “bringing in” a tens or hundreds of thousands of immigrants to Canada when we have “no room” (ignoring that half the country is literally empty). People here don’t believe investors are the problem - just that the wrong investors are trying to ruin things.
energy.
wall
I’m going to violate twitter’s terms of service