[-] Hyacathusarullistad@kbin.social 55 points 11 months ago

What we need to do is de-incentivize the commodification of housing entirely. Really make it unprofitable to deal in homes while passing the risk for your "investment" on to the people you're exploiting.

I'm talking about an outright ban on all corporations, foreign and domestic, from owning single family homes — corporations need offices, not homes, and shell corporations and LLCs don't even need those. Give a one year grace period, then tax all rental income collected from single-family homes at 100%. Maybe fine them each year too until they shape up.

I'm talking about regulating rental prices on short-term rentals, and capping the annual income allowed from short-term rental units to a value indexed against minimum wage (or preferably the area's living wage, determined not by any level of government itself but by valid third party organizations).

I'm talking an annual federal tax on properties not occupied full time by the owner or their immediate blood relative. Parent, sibling, or child. Something insane, maybe 400-800% of the home's property tax. Multiply it exponentially for each hoarded home. Throw in an exception for a second home if it's far enough from the first (people who own cottages aren't the problem, and shouldn't be penalised). But only for the second home — nobody needs two or three or four "vacation homes".

That's how we force land-rich boomers out of the housing "market" and get homes into the hands of people who need them, who should have a right to stable housing, who are currently being blocked from the market by vampiric land leeches.

[-] Hyacathusarullistad@kbin.social 24 points 11 months ago

Blue lives don't exist.

[-] Hyacathusarullistad@kbin.social 21 points 11 months ago

It wasn't until I became a Doctor Who fan that I realised the Frizz is actually a rogue Time Lord. The bus is simply her TARDIS.

I am management. You're full of shit.

If that's your experience, my friend, then your family members are trying to tell you something.

Like hell he would. He'd cut someone else's pay, or even their job, before it would occur to him that a $20 and a $5 feel and flush the exact same.

I've found that I'm checking Kbin a lot less than I checked the other place, but I'm participating more because there's a lot less toxicity and hostility here (at least for the time being).

We did it, Red-- I mean, Fediverse!

"On mobile, apologies for bad formatting."

As if posting from a mobile device somehow prevents you from using paragraphs and punctuation? Give me a break. You either can't be bothered, which means you're not worth interacting with; or you had to repeat at least a high school English class or two growing up. Either way you need to stop blaming your fucking phone.

[-] Hyacathusarullistad@kbin.social 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Emotional reactions to stimuli are healthy and natural. The key is developing an emotional awareness that allows to understand your emotional reactions. That's the only healthy way to control them, the alternative being the kind of suppression/repression that's been so toxic for men for the last century or more.

"Trickle Down" economics.

view more: next ›

Hyacathusarullistad

joined 1 year ago