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Who decided we should give all our money to landlords? Did you vote for that? I didn’t. You didn’t, either. And if you have thoughts of leaving renting behind to buy, the costs of mortgages are, not surprisingly, rising dramatically as well.
As far as I know, no landlord has been recorded as holding a literal gun to the head of tenants to sign a lease. But then there is no need for them to do so, as “market forces” do the work for them. At bottom, the problem is that housing is a capitalist market commodity. As long as housing remains a commodity, housing costs will continue to become ever more unaffordable. To put this in other words: As long as housing is not a human right, but instead something that has to be competed for and owned by a small number of people, the holders of the good (housing) will take advantage and jack up prices as high as possible.
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This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Pete Dolack.
Pete Dolack | Radio Free (2024-03-17T05:44:48+00:00) Why Should We Give All Our Money to Landlords?. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2024/03/17/why-should-we-give-all-our-money-to-landlords/
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