Housing, healthcare, education, and other universal necessities shouldn’t be for-profit.
They can be for profit.
But limited, a landlord has 1-2 apartments, not 50, and corporations are right out, as are foreign owners.
Housing needs to be about housing, healthcare needs to focus on healthcare.
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Some of the worst landlords in my city are locals who rent out 1-2 houses to students.
The least bad landlord AFAICT is a local corporation that mostly rents out commercial space but has a few residential rentals too.
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Housing needs to be about housing, healthcare needs to focus on healthcare.
That’s why I think profit needs to be eliminated from the equation. With it, the priority will always be maximizing profit, with providing a quality product or service being secondary, or even incidental.
We used to be able to pull it off, then citizens united and other lobbying meant corporations can ‘add to cart’ any laws they want.
Break campaign finance and things can actually get better.
you can’t both expect profit and good maintenance. pick one, or the other. in all things. that’s why roads aren’t privatized. or the fire brigade. etc.
Yeah, but roads and the fire brigade are shit in many states, because the construction company is run by the governors idiot brother.
That’s a separate problem. Solved by anti nepotism laws.
Hahaha hahaha.
Oh, you were being serious? Let me laugh harder.
The south is just corruption incarnate, they have anti-nepotism laws, they’re trivial to get around.
Good ol boy network always wins.
Yeah, you ain’t wrong. It just feels declasse for me to keep digging up Sherman’s corpse and yelling at him to finish the job.
I know but I lived there, he spoke the only language they can understand.
Oh boy, wait until you find out about cartels.
No they can’t.
They can, the politicians just have to have the balls.
Teddy Roosevelt knew how to handle cartels.
Have an upvote!
Ultimately nothing should be for profit.
Agreed, though I would also be down for more tightly regulated and graded housing similar to our restaurants in the short term.
More states should allow withholding rent.
Not just withholding rent, punitive judgements on anything less than best effort on dealing with it as soon as it’s known and inspection schedules that keep the longest duration it can be unknown for short enough to avoid most health issues.
isn’t that headline tautological?
