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minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year ago She lives on the rent of her properties This is exactly the thing people have issues with. The whole “I am the breadwinner of my landlord’s household.”
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThat’s why I thought she should just buy stocks and live off dividends instead. I mean, any investment has a rate of return or people would not buy it
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoYup, and housing shouldn’t be an investment. It can be affordable, or an investment, not both.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThen you should support less zoning restrictions and lower development fees to increase the availability of housing.
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI do? But I also support laws that heavily tax owning secondary properties. Building more houses is not helpful if they just get purchased by landlords.
This is exactly the thing people have issues with. The whole “I am the breadwinner of my landlord’s household.”
That’s why I thought she should just buy stocks and live off dividends instead. I mean, any investment has a rate of return or people would not buy it
Yup, and housing shouldn’t be an investment. It can be affordable, or an investment, not both.
Then you should support less zoning restrictions and lower development fees to increase the availability of housing.
I do? But I also support laws that heavily tax owning secondary properties. Building more houses is not helpful if they just get purchased by landlords.