'Ms Penn-Barwell got a mortgage to purchase the property, which she now rents out to Oksana and acts as landlady"

Lol such generosity.

  • Red_Scare [he/him]OP
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    7 months ago

    The article headline and top paragraph state she “bought a house for refugees”. In fact she elevated her economic position to a landleach by using their desperation.

    The granny had enough spare assets to acquire a spare property, now she can pay her mortgage by skimming off refugee labour. At the end of it she will have two houses and a family totally dependent on her “generosity”.

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      7 months ago

      A random grandma took out a mortgage for a family she didn’t know and housed for two years. And you don’t see this as kindness, but as evil doing of a hardened capitalist? If you hold humanity in such low regard, then who is the future for, the one we’re supposed to be achieving?

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        7 months ago

        She took out a mortgage she won’t be working to pay off. For a spare property. Fuck off.

      • D61 [any]@hexbear.net
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        7 months ago

        Why didn’t the state provide housing for the refugees?

        Kinda shitty that the only way to find a place for a family fleeing a war is to find some rando who isn’t a huge creep, that rando having enough assets to get approved for a mortgage, the rando becoming a landlord, and that family having to pay a mortgage in their landlord’s name… just to have a comfortable place to live.