• alucard (they/them)@feddit.orgEnglish
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    24 days ago

    Exactly. It’s greedy landlords who withhold living space for €€€. It wouldn’t surprise me if most countries actually have a landlord problem and aren’t missing space to live in.

    • Cobrachicken@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      24 days ago

      Could you explain? Why would it be profitable not to rent and generate cashflow? Because they speculate on rising building prices? That may only be true in a very few high value areas.

      • ddplf@szmer.infoEnglish
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        24 days ago
        • inflating prices by limiting the supply, you don’t even need to rent your real estate, you get insane gains just via appreciation
        • radically pro-tenant laws are primarily rewarding unlawful tenats by making them impossible to evict even for extreme negligence, which discourages landlords from offering their unused properties
        • no laws to force landlords to rent their unused properties or discourage from purchasing additional estate just to hold them as assets