Rent is theft.
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>>541933375I read rent control but I hear niggers
>>541933375Rent control doesn’t work. Landlords just start charging extra “fees” to compensate for it. Remove zoning restrictions and environmental oversight bullshit to encourage more housing if you want cheaper rent
Did Paul Dano troon out?
>>541933375By definition it's rent-seeking behavior, in the same category as scalpers and defended with the same bad arguments.
>>541933375The author btw:
trueboomers think they can overcharge 3000% for literally everything while keeping the wages the same. deranged.
>>541933375I agree with that totally.Having your landlord being forced tk foreclose that apartment building and you being left out on the streets means you don't need to pay rent!
>>541933375
what if you just didn't have 80 years of regulation that increases the cost of housing more every single year...What if unfinished "starter" homes were financially viable to build/sell?
>>541933746Landlords need tenants tho
>>541933375> Rent is theft.Live under a fucking bridge then loser!
>>541933375>Rent is theft.So don't rent then.
Rent is not any different from food or other necessities.
>>541933375I'm not sure it's quite that cut and dry but it's up to policymakers to create an environment where rent seeking is minimized.
>>541933800Starter homes won't be viable as long as landlords and landlord companies are willing to buy expensive homes to rent out. Why sell a cheap home when you can guaranteed sell an expensive home?
>>541933375Yeah bro just let strangers live in your house FOR FREE
>>541933375I'm a landlord. Pay up, or you'll be removed.
>>541933375So the economics of price ceilings don't exist right? Someone needs to apply for a Nobel Prize for disproving it.
>>541933375But then the greedy landlords burn the property down for the insurance payout.
>>541933375>I voluntarily entered into an agreement to exchange currency for shelter for a set amount of time>im being robbedSo Airbnb and hotels are theft?
>>541933375>keep calm
>>541933375>>541933739>>541934362Mao was close to a final solution to the Landlord Question. Only problem is that he didn't go far enough. Mao's Red Guards should have given landlords Zyklon B enemas and force them to watch their families get stoned to death.
why should I pay for things WAAAAAAAAAAHHHH
Rent Control is not only antisemitic but Boomphobic
>>541935105>it wasn't real communism
>>541933375commies get pic related
>>541935259It proved that landlords aren’t necessary
One instance I'd agree it's theft is some section 8 situations. I've seen guys on social media giving instructions on how to find section 8 properties to buy because the rent is guarunteed... from the government. Which begs the question, why would the government give rent coupons to people every month instead of them personally buying the same property? And how many such properties exist in the US?They're likely spending tens of millions every month doing this, and putting money into a random guys pocket instead of recycling it to keep the costs of their programs down. in b4 communism.
>>541933375>Renter Consents>Landord Consents>communist, is there someone you forgot to ask?
>>541935307wdym?didn't China, Soviet Union AND Cuba all experienced terrible unimaginable famine after removing landlords?One of first problems Cuba had after revolution is that they didn't know how to grow potatoes efficiently enough... there's like Che Guevara interviews talking about it, they were genuinely surprised that mass scale production wasn't the same as growing potatoes in a backyard
>>541933375>hay, I see you own a house. Can I stay in a room for free? You know, because rent is theft.>no>living on street
>>541935374>>communist, is there someone you forgot to ask?The worrisome thing is that under democracy there is someone landlords forgot to ask, and people can vote their way into communismcan't vote your way out (must fight) but voting your way in is easy
>>541933532/pol/ in 2026 will unironically defend landlords because muh heckin lefties also don't like them
>>541933375Please stop renting your Internet connection
>>541933375Build your own house faggot.
>>541933375Rent control is for fat black women
>>541933375Landlord conventions save the workers from landlord thieves.
>>541933375Explain exactly why it is theft. Be concise>1pbtid
>>541933375Rent control is fine when taxes are fixed
>>541933375Economist here.Rent control is one of the most thoroughly studied public policies and the evidence demonstrates that it doesn't achieve the intended outcome of reducing rent prices. We have decades of data across a broad variety of countries, cities, etc. that prove this.Rent control can stabilize prices in the very short term but in the long term it exacerbates the problem by decreasing the incentive to build new housing or maintain existing housing stock which results in both lower quality housing and housing shortages in the long term. It also has negative knock-on effects for the economy such as reducing labor mobility because people end up feeling locked in, which discourages people from moving to find better opportunities or gives them an incentive to stay put and deal with long commutes. It also encourages people to hold on to leases on rent controlled properties even when they don't really need it which results in a misallocation of housing.Let me give you a personal example. My wife has held on to a rent controlled apartment in LA for like 15 years that she had since she graduated college. She now makes 200-300k a year and really doesn't need a rent controled apartment lol. She hasn't even lived in California for like 6 years but she keeps it because it's cheaper to pay for that apartment than it is to book hotels when she travels there for weeklong business trips several times a year. That apartment costs her like 1200 a month and if she terminated the lease, the property owner could rent it out for like 2500-3000. Therefore you have an apartment sitting vacant 95% of the time just because the government's intervention in the economy has created a perverse incentive that has led to a misallocation of housing.The only sustainable long term solution is to build more housing. This is very simple economics but the main problem is that incumbent homeowners have spent decades passing regulations that prevent new dense construction.
>>541938355You don't even need dense construction in a country the size of the USA. Yet everyone (including me) wants to be an urbanite and live in a pod for some reason
>>541933375Landlords are nasty people, even classic capitalists like Adam Smith mocked them, and modern algorithmic pricing has made them even more evil; but rent control is one of those things which is in fact historically proven to be a greater evil than anything else.
>>541935552Jewish lightning is based, tranny.
Rent control protects trust fund kids living in expensive neighborhoods.
>>541938691two wolves>nasty >mocked>evilemotional female argumentation>historically proven to be a greater evilfacts based male argumentation
>>541938804>Rent control protects trust fund kids living in expensive neighborhoods.
Landlord here.If you fixed my rents I would still rent the unit out. I will still seek to buy properties for the purposes of renting. I’m in it for the equity. I will not “remove the unit from the market” in any way shape or form. I won’t stop using leverage to build a multi million dollar portfolio paid for by others. No landlord I know would do that, either.By all means allow me to charge as much as I want but don’t be a retard. I’m in it for the equity. If my rents were fixed that wouldn’t change. It would still represent the easiest way to build wealth and I would still do it.
>>541934246That doesn't happen very often.
>>541938691Im a landlord how the fuck am I evil when I let my tenants do whatever they want on the property even make additions and modifications as long as they give me the fee. Shit I even take care of maintaining the back yard because I know they wont do it themselves.
It's just another industry that has fallen prey to hyper capitalism.Estate agents for example? Like they make up loads of paperwork and checks and you have to pay some extra shit and they skim off the people selling.And now index funds are buying houses, over budget, because house prices always rise and they will make the money back eventually and are turning housing into a subscription service which is the latest wall street way to make money.
>>541933375just require landlords to live in the dwelling 6 months out of the year. it fucks over kike mega owners and makes them more likely to fix their buildings and it fucks over the retarded airbnb faggots
>>541933375It's funny how many leftist DSA types don't even realize that in the USSR and Maoist China and every other communist worker's paradise, you still had to pay rent if you wanted to live anywhere other than the absolutely shittiest communal housing imaginable, even worse that the public housing projects in western capitalist countries. You retards want muh communism because your think under communism everything would be free and you wouldn't have to work. But that isn't what communism is actually like at all. You are really imagining some kind of post-scarcity utopia and (very wrongly) believe it would somehow magically happen automatically and inevitably if the workers seized the means of production and the State controlled every aspect of the economy and society. But many countries have tried doing exactly that, real communism has been tried, but instead of leading to some kind of post-scarcity utopian paradise where everything was perfect, they all just became totalitarian dystopian shitholes. Every single communist in history has insisted that what they were proposing would inevitably create a utopian paradise, but none of them have ever provided any kind of coherent mechanism or explanation for how or why it would happen. And they also never provide a valid explanation for why we shouldn't consider the fact that many countries have tried to do exactly what they are proposing and it has never worked. They just wave their hands and say "oh no, that's not REAL communism."
>>541933667Oy fucking Vey
>>541933375Rent control doesn't work. South Tirol tried that communisem thing in the 1990 and it just turned into yeah you can rent that 3k/month house for $700 per months the landlord just charges an $2500 contract fee on top.
>>541933375Rent control is the single worst thing you can do which also does not solve any underlying issue, only pure nigger retards who know nothing about the most basic economics support this. A price ceiling creates a shortage then the landlords cannot pay their operating costs leading to them either burning their own properties down to collect on insurance (worsening the shortage) or the government and banks ending up owning literally everything. Good job, now go look at pictures of 1970s NYC, Harlem, etc. and wonder how it got that way. But of course in 2026 we are inundated with the most nigger tier vantablack nigger brained retards imaginable, this planet needs an asteroid.
Cars have subscription services now.Capitalism is well out of hand
>>541939193Not legal. People have tried, believe me. Now maybe in some shithole red state you could get away with that but that would be the easiest lawsuit imaginable and your insurance wouldn’t cover the damages.
>>541934467Everything they want that they have to pay for is theft. Meanwhile they love taxes, which are actual theft (technically robbery), because only productive people have to pay them.
>>541938355It's almost like don't even bother, this place is browned to shit. Obviously the solution so limited supply is to either increase supply or reduce demand. They don't understand this because this place is like fucking nigger brained now.I would disagree with passing the buck on to home owners, that is a highly specific case and super misleading. Nobody wants to have their home town or neighborhood destroyed by urban sprawl. The real problem is the GOVERNMENT because their policies ultimately created all this for a multitude of reasons.
>>541939306>taxes, which are actual theftExactly. Stop funding the government, the police, and the military. Take our tax dollars back.
>>541939170>but none of them have ever provided any kind of coherent mechanism or explanation for how or why it would happenbecause it's meant to be a carrot on the stick for cattle to work. that's it. the transition is always some kind of magical thing that just happens in everyone's head with no real explanation.they think someone who has the power will just decide from then on everyone gets to enjoy life and shit. it's really that fucking retarded. has no translation to reality, there's no real proof of anything of the sorts, as general direction. there's nothing. just some kind of magical moment where things just flip for no reason really. that's all of their framework. if that doesn't scare you...
>>541939170They also have this fantasy having to work, and be a waggie, is a capitalist thing.Communism literally forced people to work long hours, including unpaid "voluntary" work which wasn't voluntary at all. Refusing to show up damaged your party standing, university placement, or housing priority.They are a danger to themselves and everyone around them.
>>541939207> cannot pay their operating costsWhat operating costs are you talking about? I write into the contract that all maintenance is to be performed by the tenant on a regular basis and perform inspections quarterly. What costs do you possibly think I am spending on? I truly don’t understand this level of boot licking.It’s amazing how you guys seem to think this is actually a job and not just me building equity using someone else’s paycheck while doing fuck all.
>>541933375Silence damned women!I damn you to the mountians!I damn you to the desert!I damn you to the abyss!From holiness you fled, to isolation you are damned!You have no power here!
>>541939423Yeah it's just fucking free to own and maintain a building. Jesus Christ are you fucking stupid.
>>541939574 I’m a landlord. I haven’t paid a dime to maintain anything since I bought the place. Have you met a landlord?? The whole thing is I am not going to fix shit, it’s your responsibility contractually, and if I do fix it I have clauses to claw back all costs and then a fee for making me do it.Truly, do you know anything about being a landlord?
>>541933375Go live under a bridge then nigger. No one owes you a place to live you fucking parasite
>>541933375Renting is for losers who will never move up in life. Landlords are gigachads
>>541933375Slavery is a more accurate descriptor.
>>541939717You're a liar, you're not a landlord, you're not even an independent home owner because an independent home owner is well aware of the costs.>Replace roof>Repaint everything>Pipe randomly burst>Radon inspection>Maintain grounds>Remove snow>Pay property taxes and insurance>Periodically update the entire building, appliances, interior to stay modernNow take all of that, multiply it by even up to hunreds of times, add in the costs of having maintenance staff on call in case of emergencies, having to renovate and update an apartment (including replacing carpet after each tenant if required by law), dealing with tenants who trash shit, constantly having to fix random bullshit you never even know could go wrong and replacing things, dealing with all sorts of regulatory bullshit, dealing with government inspections, etc. You have no idea what you are talking about, you're a fucking moron.
who rents?Immigrants Offspring of junkiesOffsping of criminalsJunkie/criminal/ disowned losersWho are landlords?People with roots going back centuriesOffspring of well adjusted peopleOffspring of smart peopleSelf made people
>>541934246Smoky lake is a small town in Alberta about a 1.5 hour drive from Edmonton. It's the Pumpkin Capital of the whole world! Sure it's a bedroom community without much for regular job opportunities in the town itself, but heck, it's got Internet services and nowadays you can earn money from home if you're not a retard. Your monthly mortgage payments probably wouldn't exceed $800 a month for this quaint little place which boasts 2.5 bathrooms. I imagine there's all manner of similarly priced places across the U.S. outside of the big centers. The lot it's on is probably twice the size you'd expect from newer subdivisions.
>>541935343>I've seen guys on social media giving instructions on how to find section 8 properties to buy because the rent is guarunteed... from the government. It's a terrible idea because Section 8 tenants are atrocious and a constant nightmare and will completely destroy your property. Also, the government gets to decide what is the "fair market rent" and you aren't allowed to charge more than that, and it's usually on the very low end of what people actually pay for rent in the area. Unless you own a shithole, the maximum amount of rent you could get from Section 8 is less than what you would want to charge.It's so bad that the government has to make laws prohibiting people from discriminating against Section 8 tenants or refusing to rent to them because no one wants to deal with it.Guaranteed rent is not a big benefit, if a normal tenant stops paying rent, you can just evict them and find someone who will pay.>why would the government give rent coupons to people every month instead of them personally buying the same property? That's what the government did for most of the 20th century. They started giving out Section 8 and other housing vouchers because the public housing projects owned by the government had turned into such horrific crime filled shitholes by the 1970s.>And how many such properties exist in the US?There are about 2.2 million households receiving Section 8 vouchers.
if landlords are the problem why don't all these socialist geniuses get together and buy the building they live in like a co-op ?
>>541939422It wasn't just about social standing, being unemployed in communist countries is literally a crime called Social Parasitism. The people who didn't want to work got sent to a gulag.There was also still income inequality under communism. Different jobs had different pay scales that were set by the government. In the USSR I think there were 7 different pay bands. The people in the top pay band (directorate executives, academic officials, etc) received about 10x the pay of the manual laborers in the minimum wage pay band.
>>541940323It'd be cheaper to build new ones and crash the housing prices
>>541933375Another well poisoning 1pbtid.Mamdani is merely holding Landlords accountable to:1. Contract Law2. Pre-existing standards of building and health department codes
>>541940536Stop. You're making communist sound slightly based.I have no objection to NEETs being gulagged. But if we can just keep the part where we negotiate our own salaries for all of us working, that'd like "best of both worlds" territory.
leftists are so retarded they will vote something like rent control, which is the single most studied topic in economics that is universally agreed upon to be a bad policyits s ofucking stupid its unrealthe city im from voted rent control. you wouldnt believe what happened next. theres 0 availability and nobody is building, all of the units are taken up by asylum seekers and its almost as expensive as boston but pays 40% less than a boston salary wouldgod damnit leftists are retarded
>>541933532Fpbp>>541935552No, thats the r*dditors who have raided the board for pver 10 years now and make up 60% of the posters now.>>541935600Shalom!>>541940222>it's got Internet services and nowadays you can earn money from home if you're not a retard.How. I am literally a mensa member. I cannot find anything that actually works.
>>541933375>Nathan J. Robinson
>>541933375I love watching the propagandists accuse each other of the very same thing, scrambling to save their own skins—and they’re all true believers, too... There are 3,000 problems with the economy, and do you know which one they’ve singled out as the priority? You guessed it... the prices individual citizens set for their own real estate assets. Yet there’s not a word about the cost of food, energy, customs duties, or shipping rates, nor a peep about the two wars strangling global freight transport, the state expenses, the taxes, the unfair laws...... But they using the properties of people who don’t vote for them to grant privileges to those who do? That’s priceless. i fkn hail this philanthropic, advanced democracy of chosen beings of light.
>>541933375It’s great for the people lucky enough to get into a rent controlled unit. It’s AIDS for literally everyone else.
>>541933667Jew in OP's pic and well that right there.
>>541933375Go back to Russia commie. Not paying rent is theft. Fucking dirty hippie.
>>541940222Nice to know I can retire in an incel loser town if I just want to give up on life
>>541933375I raise the rent on all my rental properties every year. You losers dont know what it takes to maintain a property, insurance repairs, etc. I also account for inflation and add an extra 5% for myself!!! Thanks for paying my mortgages and increasing my generational wealth wagies! See you in Waikiki...oh wait no I won't!!! bahahahaha
>>541933375Everything leftists agitate for is in direct opposition to their stated goals. Rent, affordability, living wages, but then they want open borders too because racism or something. It's impossible to take you seriously.
>>541944921>agitate forKek
>>541944921>open bordersOpen borders has no meaning, you fuckers have never once stated what you consider an open border, you just slap the label on politicians you don't like without ever explaining what that means
>>541933595>Remove zoning restrictions and environmental oversight bullshitJust build nigger shantys?
>>541941160of course socialism is based, especially if it's nationalistthe only reason communism is retarded is because central economies are utterly ineffective... government officials don't know how to build shit, supply chains are fractally complex and this isn't intuitive for most people, particularly women and twinks
>>541933375you could, i dont know, not rent and own faggot
