who are you again?

I feel like you are putting too much on the landlords here. Couldnt this also be caused by rising demand for housing in an area where the pop density has reached the maximum the building can support? A lot of areas like this prevent higher density buildings from being built. The whole NIMBYISM thing

@@kirmie44 Nobody is forced to rent out housing for more money just because there are more people applying for it. You could just choose one person and demand the same price you have demanded before.

heyy, you forgor to upload the video to nebula

@@johannageisel5390 The price is a different point. I am talking about the technicalities being used to change a rather spacious town home into a multifamily residence.

Its a feature, not a bug.

@@Atamanxxxvii Here in the U.S tax money is spent on making the bureaucracy for affordable housing programs more complicated so homeless people cant access resources without waiting many years and contacting multiple kinds of lawyers. It is very much a feature.

affordable anything. 🤷🏾

@@cipher8987 I am in affordable housing in the US and basically you pay for it with your physical and mental health instead of with your wallet. To get into my house I had to live in "programs" for 4 years. Luckily I did it in my youth (I was homeless since childhood) so I came out on the other side more intact than a lot of people do. Many people who enter the program start using drugs to cope with the living conditions. I saw lots of people come in sober and drop out addicted. Since exiting I have joined a youth activist movement to help other young people who are homeless and work with government agencies to advocate for better practices and services in these programs. But I imagine it will be a life-long fight. The bureaucracy makes too much money off of people like me to let go without kicking and screaming.

Allowing homelessness to exist alongside billionares is a crime against humanity

As long as you understand that landlords have nothing to do with the housing crisis, acknowledging how much they benefit from it is fine.

@@abbynguyen5923 But they do have something to do with the housing crisis: Often landlords - not individuals, but the larger agencies who operate at scale - are actively involved in lobbying local governments in opposition to housing. Because more housing would mean their 'investment' loses value.

@@abbynguyen5923 "landlords buying up all the houses and pricing everyone out of the market have nothing to do with the housing crisis" - sentences uttered by people who very definitely haven't had their brains turned to cottage cheese by decades of pro-capitalist rhetoric.

No but you see, you don't understand the most fundamental part about economics. You're not supposed to question it, and you have to pretend like the economy has always and will always work in this same exact way.

What're you talking about? Keep that mathematics bullshit out of our money! Says every economist ever.

we need to make being a landlord illegal. Anyone who becomes a landlord immediately gets a trillion dollar fine, life in prison, and no chance of parole. Much better than the current system

As a small landlord whose tenant's refrigerator wasn't getting cold enough (according to her) and had to be put on the town's applicance repairman's waiting list for a couple weeks, I can't imagine what several months of incoming complaints and threats would be like to endure. That landlord must have quite a constitution! I was getting incoming volleys and rants 2-3x daily. I'm surprised she didn't send in a SWAT team or the National Guard 😵

@@c.rutherford youre a landlord? cringe

@@squeenixu just somebody that worked all my life, saved money, paid for an old building and renovated it, yes. And can't afford to keep it without renting it out to someone else. That makes me a "landlord". Whoopie do! You can put down your bag of Doritos, get off the couch and do it too. If you pay your bills, a bank will give you a mortgage! #yesyoucan

@@c.rutherford nevermind kind of ok landlord because that property would have been destroyed otherwise problem is with those who just buy new property just to exploit people, especially when in the future i actually need to have a place to live (i am currently 16) while being able to pay for food at the same time

very cool, think i saw something about that program over in Germany. didnt the government take a load of properties from out of town speculators who were buying houses and leaving them vacant for years before selling them for a massive mark up, and give them back to the city, to the people? something along those lines, if memory serves me correctly. we need something like that over here. its getting very silly isnt it :(

​@@Cloudsurfer69 I think you might be referring to the initiative "Deutsche Wohnen Enteignen" (expropriate the company Deutsche Wohnen) in Berlin. That was actually a referendum in the city of Berlin... which got passed, against all the campaigns in conservative newspapers. You know, like "hurr durr, nobody will invest in this city anymore!" and "we don't have enough apartments, expropriation won't add new ones and afterwards nobody will build anything anymore!". Still, it went through, because people in Berlin were just SO. FED. UP. There's two big corporations ("Deutsche Wohnen" and "Vonovia") that together own hundreds of thousands of apartments and houses all over Germany and a lot of those are in Berlin. They do ALL the "bad-landlord-stuff". Jacking up prices for no reason. Adding fees for services that were not rendered (like a fee for clearing the way to the door of snow in a year where it didn't snow in Berlin AT ALL.) Doing bullshit "renovations" against the tenants wishes for months on end to get people to leave so they can put the apartment up for a higher rent. And so on and so forth. Technically, the city council and the mayor have to go through with the expropriation now... Something which is allowed by the german constitution, by the way. The state is allowed to expropriate corporations and private owners of land and/or means of production if that is necessary for the common good and if the previous owners are compensated adequately. (It just has never been done since the constitution was written, but it IS in there.) And the current (social democrat) mayor ran on a platform of making the whole thing happen... Exceeept... Not that she's in office, suddenly she doesn't want to EXPROPRIATE the corporations anymore, she wants to incentivise them. And when that sparked outrage, she put together a commission on how to do the expropriation stuff. The commission was full of people who are very pro-open-market, pro-business, pro-property-rights, etc... Which was the next scandal... There is a lot of wringing-of-hands and dragging-of-feet going on, right now. No conclusion in sight.

I grew up in a similar co-op in Vancouver, laws changed, now they're not long for this city

I lived in one of those for a year in germany as well. It's the best system for renting in my opinion, the best experience I've ever had renting an apartment

This is how it should be done. It can even be applied for retail/work spaces. It has the added advantage of making moving so much easier.

Sorry to hear your experience.

They're the most literal example of a rent-seeker. They extract wealth without creating anything of value themselves; they're housing scalpers

This is why the right to buy should be extended to all private property. If you've occupied a property for a say 2 years and have improved it you should first dibs on buying it, perhaps contractually agreeing a price before you put in the work to improve it. There's a thing called a purchase lease option that creative people who add value to derelict spaces should be able to use more. Even better, lease holders should by law get a share of the capital gain they have added in the time they lived there. I wish the artists that often start the move toward gentrification got the benefit instead of lazy landlords. It's a matter of education and the law and councils making it easier for those with little money to create the right structures so that it happens.

Why didn't you do what you needed to do? You know what

@@cmw3737 Why reason with them, they hardly do it for you. 10 years renting and you own it. Done no discussion. The Bank can go pound sand.

Also disabled pensioner. And I'm on the NDIS (Australian Disability program) and thought that maybe the disability specific housing (which I am severely disabled enough to be eligible for) might be a possibility. Nope. Firstly, they take 80% of your pension (it's the same as with aged care homes). But also, all the SDA places are privately owned. And they know that it is far more profitable to shove as many disabled people into one house as possible. So, there is no such thing as a house available for a disabled person and their family (my situation). If I want to live in a home that is designed to meet my disability needs, I would have to leave my brother (my full-time informal carer) and my minor child (for whom I am their only parent) and go live in a group home. And pay 80% of my pension for the privilege. It's completely borked. But private rental isn't better. So my only hope is to put myself on the years long social housing list and hope they take us. At least government housing will make some changes to make things more disability friendly. In the meantime, I have to live in unsafe housing.

Yeah i have a disability pension too and im constantly worried about losing it i only get 850 which is hardly enough. A church owns my house and i dont think the carpet or the heaters hace been changed in decades

You have to choose. Creating hybrid plans where disabled people get pensions are also able to make a living sound pointless to me.

do youget 900 usd biweekly or is that some other currency

@@ss_avsmt the amount I earn is not a living either way. Disabled people get hired and in put in higher positions less and get paid less than non-disabled folks

Thats Smith’s stopped clock moment.

People who can’t afford to buy houses And renting still are just as parasitic. Landlords that are big corporations are bad, but there are some landlords here trying to keep rent low and helping the tenants get by barely making enough to cover mortgage and house depreciation

@@daotran2300 wrong

@@daotran2300 Those landlords could do even more by selling their excess homes to families and not charge any rent. I'm not going to have any sympathy for anyone who overcharges for homes. And anything more than 0 is overcharging.

@@ahouyearno Housing should be a right not a commodity!

Yet despite this, there's no vitriol, no personal attacks or dunks, everything is just stated factually in a way that can't really be refuted.

Not "unapologetic"- just militant and unwilling to look at both sides of the argument. A person largely governed by their own emotions.

@@lochnessmunster1189 he clearly does look at both sides, it's just that sometimes one side is just wrong. I won't entertain the side that refuses to acknowledge climate change, for one. Objectivity and neutrality are not a compromise between two extremes of opinions. When the news broadcast pro-brexit voices that were constantly lying, they were neither objective nor neutral. I have no clue how you could have honestly watched his content and come to the conclusion that he is governed by emotions. He's not Ben Shapiro.

@@deckie_ He is governed by emotions. Have a look at the title of the video: "how landlords ruined everything". Everything? Music, movies, video games, cycling, restaurants, air travel, literature? All "ruined"? As for Brexit, both sides lied. Boris lied when he said the money saved would go the the NHS, and remainers lied when they said that a structure such as the EU is essential for free trade in Europe.

Money.

@@user-xsn5ozskwg money is literally the economy brother. I'm debating the free market here.

Why uphold a system that benefits the wealthy few at the expense of the many? Because we were indoctrinated to think that any alternatives to capitalism either don't work or are outright evil.

@@ramonacalvin9100 I feel you, but the reason why people uphold that system is money.

@@ramonacalvin9100 economies can and have existed without money. We're nowhere close to overcoming the money hurdle but it's something to keep in mind.

Why hide it? Remind her what she is.

You should praise who deserve praise, and also criticize who deserve criticize. Maybe because of your harsh words they may have to think twice.

One person having one or two airbnbs is not really the issue, the problem is much greater than that and getting mad at her will accomplish nothing other than souring your relationship with her

@@danielyeary148 the power of large numbers is the problem. One person owning 1-2 properties is exponential. 1 million owners renting out two is 2 millions spaces hoarded out for a overpriced space. So if 5-10 million people do what you are saying, you could have over 20 million air BNB or Vrbo or whatever and create the same problems were dealing with

@@kaptivatingstudios676 Yes. But you could pay a mortage instead of rent, and become landowner yourself. Also keep in mind, that's the situation in the cities. In my country the prices of city apartments are through the roof. But just one hour drive out from city, there are near abandoned villages and towns where real estate cost next to nothing in comparison. If I would decide to move into city center, I would need to trade my 5 bedroom 2 story house with large garden for a cramped 1 room apartment with moldy walls and broken instalations. That's how it is. Also - the time for buying real estate is realy bad right now. Wait a few years would be my advice.

Yes, they're scalpers, the service they provide is rent-seeking, which isn't a service, it's parasitism.

Second Thought used that analogy in their recent video on Landlords.

@@nightfall3605 I thought I heard it before JT's vid but I'm glad someone recognized it. Thanks

@@evangrey4737 construction workers get paid to build the building. If nobody paid them, they wouldn’t build it. It all starts with the guy with money. It’s not like construction workers build buildings for fun

@@philmccracken179 congrats on getting half way through articulating the problem, that must have been very tough for you.

@@toniderdon yeah most of the regulations protecting us were removed in the 1980s idiot

Like I know I am being rude, but you are straight up lying and probably have a mother or father or sibling who has multiple houses. Only possible reason as to why you side with land lords.

@@toniderdon The legislation IS there, worldwide, this is by design.

@@toniderdon Found the bloodsucking landlord

I’ve never read so much nonsense in one post for at least a decade.

That's every capital city in a country that borders another who's swallowed the neoliberal Kool Aid. Welcome to the future.

Wow, given the city's size that is unreal. I had no idea it was that bad over there, so used to gentrification in the States. I moved to Phoenix just before the housing madness started and out of state parasites started to buy up every structure in the city and when they ran out of that, started buying the land on mobile home parks and kicking everyone out. It's the worst in the entire country. I can't get out soon enough.

Kinda the same is hapenning in Mérida, and in the north also happens but not the entire city or state, just some colonias close to factories

Leave it to 'murica to make the whole world a shittier place, just look at EU right now, albeit that one was seconded by EU's own corrupt politicians, not unlike anywhere else.

What you describe is well known in America, look up the term Carpet-Bagger.

As an Architect in Russia I can tell you its same everywhere... With a two minor differences - 1) here they sell flats when they even didnt started to dig a foundation pit. 2) Government dont piss a shit about how bad is your already built house until some company wants to demolish it and build an another one.

It really should be the case that homes are inspected by a government agent before the homes are deemed livable. If they aren't up to spec the builders must make it so. I'd also be in favour of licensing for building and other trades. That way if you're deemed to be negligent or incompetent you can be barred from working again.

@@Andrey_Gysev Yeees.... I have been to Russia. Back when the streets were full of Lada and Volga, and until the streets were full of BMW and Mercedes. So I have seen that big change. I think its safe to say Europe try their best to put the bar a little higher than Russia and be more civilized in every possible way.

@@trevvonhiggle1980 Well.... According to the law, you cant simply shut down and start something else the next month. But they do. Just put the whole business in somebody elses name. And then they keep the business that sells and rents out the apartments as a separate business. So they can "go bankrupt" in the building part, but not the sales and managing part.

@@trevvonhiggle1980 This is already the case.

My god, you need to get yourself a decent landlord. You should have come to me.

@@alexdavis1541 decent & landlord don't go together. you're intrinsically taking advantage of people. get a real job.

@@MossTunic I've got one of those as well.

@Luci Evelyn If you say so. If so, I have been indecent for thirty years. I have at least been able to observe the nature of the market change over that time. Here's the first point though, with housing; rented, owned, social housing or not, there is one law that cannot be ignored. So, although we have a housing market that is truly distorted for other reasons, no-one can ignore or change in any way the law of supply and demand. To correct the housing problem this has to be addressed. What you hear a lot about is correcting supply. In other words, building more. That's only half of it. Demand is through the roof. There are various drivers but by far the greatest driver is mass immigration. That fact is also the reason demand side is rarely mentioned. The distortions outside of supply and demands are also interesting. By far the biggest problem is the value of housing as an asset. Putting even a deposit out of reach of many. Why is housing more expensive than it should be even under the impositions of supply and demand? Quantitative easing. In other words, flooding the economy with money that does not exist. It is in the nature of economics that this will drift into propping up the value of assets. Why do we have QE to the degree we have? Because we have a government that thought it could send everyone home from work for months on end and still be paid. The current state of the housing market is all those pigeons coming home to roost

hahaha you said better weather in america. that is grand. there is only a couple places in america where the weather is tolerable. and guess what? living there costs 20 times more than everywhere else lol. 1 million dollars for a tiny shoebox one bedroom house and those kinds of things in those areas. but you cant really criticize USA independently since its EXTREMELY controlled by europeans in every possible way. anything bad that happens here is the direct result of someone in europe paying for/ordering it to happen as so.

Molotovs are cheap and easy, and with a bit of searching addresses aren't too hard to find.

Stop worrying and learn to love suburban sprawl.

Same, We design homes but cant afford them. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE. Even if we design something cheap to build, it will just be put on the market by the owner for market rates.

@@lindmorn5909 that's my point. Architects can design as many sustainably conscious homes and housing schemes using retrofit, but unless the government/council/people with the money approve of them, these designs will just remain conceptual. The power is at the top. The housing crisis is financially benefitting landlords and corporations so why would they change?

@@bellatam_ exactly!

Similar to how we produce more than enough food to feed the entire world population, yet millions still die of starvation. Capitalism working as intended.

@@GTAVictor9128 Exactly. In capitalism, sixty percent of food is wasted even as millions starve. Capitalist countries like the US export fuel even as they simultaneously import it, not to mention the fuel it takes to ship it back and forth. Of course we also must have middleman jacking up prices in virtually every aspect of society... Then cappies tell us socialism is wasteful.

@@GTAVictor9128 Restaurants and stores are forced by law to throw away food rather than giving it for free. It's a dog eat dog world and the government is not on your side.

Inheritance?

@@jade4781 Inheritance as in being handed down a fortune, business, estate, etc. for free just because of birthright. Like, the big stuff that enables modern-day dynasties to persist. Not small stuff like a family home or an heirloom or whatever

Have you ever considered actually trying to be a landlord?

@@truth.speaker that requires you to be able to afford property in the first place.

@@truth.speaker my brother in Christ I spend 10000 dollars a year on an apartment you have no idea what you're talking about. I still have good savings making 25 dollars an hour, but I'm kinda the exception since I'm in a skilled trade. Not everyone can do this, and I'm in one of the cheapest places to live in the US. I'd still have to save for 3 years to afford a basic 300k house.

Or buy-to-letters who want to do the bare minimum they possibly can legally get away with while relying on other people to buy their own equity in the property for them. Either it's an asset you're gradually acquiring equity in, or it's a passive income stream on something you actually own. Landlords who try to make it both at once while squeezing the life out of the property & anyone in it are a blight.

My landlord is a colleague in his 40s, who bought this flat to live in when he was in his 20s, and started renting it when he got married and moved in with his wife. He's as good a landlord as anyone could hope for.

@@RoamingAdhocrat He's also rarer than hen's teeth (assuming that your assessment is even marginally correct)

@@davidmiller9485 I'm almost certain he is a colleague - I see a green dot next to his name in MS Teams from time to time

@@RoamingAdhocrat haha nice

Care to explain how the "hand" "created" the problem? Sounds like the problem is lack of regulation, lack of tax incentives for renters (we will ignore that you don't pay property tax) The irony in this comment is astounding because you identify the problem; and then move the goalpost far beyond where it needs to be. All while literally engaging in fearmongering and ad hominem attacks against landlords. There are landlords who are soulless greedy moneygrubbers. There are also landlords who give fair pricing and provide cheap, non permanent housing for people that need that. note: I don't own any property, residential or commercial. I currently rent. If I tried to buy a house with the same square footage, I would see a large jump in my yearly budget expenses because of my mortgage, and property taxes. The problem is the government and it's lack of effective regulation, not some "hand" (a *poor* metaphor to try to explain the nuances of the market to people who didn't go to school for one of the many branches of the studies of economics)

​@@akaku9 Bruh look up what "the invisible hand" means. It literally means the way an unregulated market behaves. You and the OP are in agreement and you don't even realise because you couldn't do a 5 second google search.

What AbstractSpaces said. Dylan's comment made me lol because it's in total agreement with Tighe.

@@abstractspaces8186 I knew that the average reading level in america was falling; but I didn't know it was this low. If you think I'm agreeing with OP you probably were the slow reader in class. You guys telling me to look up "what the unseen hand is" is making my fucking head spin lmfao

@@akaku9 >The problem is the government and it's lack of effective regulation, not some "hand" You are a simpleton. Not a dig, just stating facts. The hand is directly related to the government and its lack of regulation. Look up neoliberalism, aka the most laissez faire form of governance we still tout in the current age. THAT is the hand. THAT is the problem. This hand needs to be guillotined.

We need to end Capitalism for housing and many other things for a better future for all, but the only way is revolution

I would like for the house value to keep up with inflation. Ideally so would wages.

That sounds like a good idea on the face of it, but would require the constant building of new houses to maintain itself. Cars depreciate over time automatically because new, better cars are constantly being built and bought, and because many cars aren't as efficient or functional after a few years have gone by. Houses, on the other hand, are not being constantly replaced or rebuilt, and are generally considered things that should last a long time. So having a market where the value of a house constantly depreciates would eventually lead to almost all houses being worthless. One could argue that would be better and that housing should be free (which I agree with), but that should come from a different model than depreciative housing price, as under this model people still need the money they get from selling a house in order to afford the new property. The main issue with house pricing is the fluctuation and lack of correlation with average wage/inflation rates. Minor, tiny changes in the neighbourhood or town or country as a whole can drastically change the price, regardless of whether that's affordable on average wages. For example, London houses are not expensive because Londoners on average earn enough to be able to afford million-pound price tags, they're expensive because London is a desirable location for a lot of business/tech jobs. Changing the price model to depend more on average local earnings wouldn't entirely stop London being more expensive, but it would still significantly lower the insane prices. Add to that a ban (or at least many MANY more restrictions and rules) on landlords and their rent prices, it'd hugely affect how many people can afford housing long-term.

you dont know basic economics

With that logic nothing should go up on price, including wages. But that shortly makes one of the least valuable countries on the planet.

I'm so sorry you have to deal with that 💔 Best of luck to you

Just checking in, how are you doing?

The loo with the view!

I'm a homeless advocate here in San Francisco, CA (living on a low income), and the situation is quite ugly in my country, too. I just want to say (from across the pond): may good fortune come your way, very soon.

@@brindlekintales thank you!

Homeless with internet connection?!?

@@philmccracken179 ever hear of mobile data? Public WiFi? Homie.... It is 2022

@@em97c oh lol my bad

hi Tom, merry Tom, ring a ding dillo

Landlords are just scaupers

Ive been living in downtown TO for the past year. My room is basically a square with a door and one itty bitty window waaay up high with a wonderful view into the hallway… i pay $750/month for this and have to share it with 6 other strangers, have to share bathrooms and the tiny kitchen thats so small its barely usable for one person nevermind 7. Also my rent is the lowest in the whole building.W

Unlikely given how many MPs are landlords and that’s in all the major parties.

this is what ive been thinking for literal years. why would anyone ever need 2+ houses besides making passive income off of other peoples need for shelter? the only case i would make an exemption for are people with more than 1 kid so that they can buy their kids a roof in advance before they grow up IF their initial home isnt bigger than like 500 square meters.

That's when they start doing creative possession like they already do accounting where now, on paper, every member of their immediate & extended family "owns" the max allowance for residential properties.

This would really not do very much. The issue is not with the number of properties owned. A property management company can own a block of 100 apartments and take good care of them, or some landlord can own 1 and be awful.

@@n00dl3 Currently the way we do taxes is we tax people more for more valuable property. Property taxes should be regressive, this way increasing the value of your property is rewarded rather than punished.

"Dogs sense bad people" lmao

Clearly, that dog did nothing wrong

That dog was a good boy.

I have some distant realatives as roomies and i love to cook but i try to steer clear whenever they are out and about. They dont share food unless i pay for whatever i use of theirs and i have disability they get paid evey week i have to wait a month and my check barely lasts two weeks before its gone

My landlady illegally evicted me because my cat was making too much noise. The cat whose only toy was a scratching post.

Council landlords, private landlords, social landlords, or all three, ?

It's an exception when they're not parasitic tbh

They are a sub-set of a group.... the whole lot are entirely parasitic though. The investor class tell Society that no one would be able to start a company, or construct a house in this case, without them. In exchange, they demand the ability to take funds out of the economy in perpetuity. In doing so, they have created the situation where people lack the ability to even begin attempting to dismantle the system. Not legally anyway... Strange how the laws are written to favour these parasites, no? For that is another element to keep in mind about this class, they have regulated and outlawed things into their favour. In the past, a house wasn't consider something you invested in... it was a temporary dwelling that you tore down and rebuilt every few decades as your family situation changed. Now though, you just try to add an additional story to your house so you can move in your extended family because the Housing Crisis has put them onto the streets....

@@chriswatkin5476 all three.. they are just like a bank giving a mortgage but at the end they keep the house.

That’s like saying all the people taking government benefits are parasites.

The correct term is landleech.

Yeah I am a student in the UK right now trying to get my deposit back 😭. I actually left it in a better condition than when I moved it, the kitchen and bathroom were filthy. So many people have no idea how cruel and petty landlords can be before they experience being a tenant a few times.

@@aftokratory Yeah in other countries this is dealt with by a third party and not the "landlord" himself. Over in the UK they are often just difficult by default and they keep at it until you have no choice but to go the legal route, and then you are left wondering... Is it worth the hassle or not. And they are betting on that you will think its not. Its terrible. Also many will ask for a ridiculous deposit. And want to be paid a WEEK. Its truly a rotten culture, the whole thing. Thats one of the things Im glad I never have to go through again.

Are there ever any consequences to the landlord if the decision to withhold your deposit is overturned by the TDS, or whoever? Is there anything to stop them trying it on?

I love the term landlord. It makes them sound like the medieval relic that they are, and suggests what should be done about them (it's guillotine time !!).

A friend of mine is just moving out of a house that sounds like it's in a similar state. It's a Victorian house with roof tiles missing, ceilings caved in, walls with all the plaster falling off, stairs treads soft and about to cave in, dodgy electrics that have been condemned at one point (only thing that was just about sorted out) and it's generally never had basic maintenance probably since the 90s. Environmental health said they could step in but she'd likely have to leave immediately since the condition was so poor. They ended up deciding to leave it so she had time to find somewhere to move to which has taken over a year.

omg, your video about landlord tiktok helped me realize that I'd been duped into a 'house hacking' situation. Was paying this person's whole mortgage for one room. Thankfully the housing crisis in our area let up for a little and I'm out of there now, still cringe at that video. keep it up! ❤️

@@amyporter4335 omg thats amazing haha glad i could help ;)

Second Thought put out a video on landlords very recently.

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hey kelgoreeeeeeeeeeeee

It's always useful to know where your landleech sleeps.

Soviet Russia sulked but at least they gave some space for some commi blocks

This might be an unpopular opinion, but that actually sounds okay. High density is good and often that comes with having to be in close proximity to other people. Traditional old cities all over the world have windows looking directly into other windows, and they get by just fine.

@@LightbulbTedbear2 Am aware low density is bad economically and environmentally, that's why i love cities like cities like Amsterdam with medium density but after living in a place surrounded by 30 story buildings i can say i prefere medium density over high it also was less overveiling to to trams and sidewalks.

Exactly my situation!! Except I’m a student, oh man I can’t wait to see how the landlord will try whittle my deposit away especially after this year’s heating costs.

That HAS to be some kind of joke, come on, in Spain minimum salaries are €700 pcm.

Am from the Uk and i want to move to Germany it's insane a house sized apartment is like 400 euro in any larger city and wages are better to so it feels even cheaper.

@@tiloosomega2448 then move dude, even though we are out of the EU it is still relatively easy, and better than staying here and suffering ever higher prices fue everything.

@@andreaslind6338 Tanks for the engorgement

The only issue I see with that is that there history be someone employed to maintain whatever plants are intended to be grown, and that feels like the first place cost cutting measures will be applied by managers leaving those spaces fairly likely to become first empty and unutilized, then eventually remodeled into more profitable spaces. I say from experience farming is a tight margin business, and I expect (assume) the margins would be better on keeping more tennants.

Still not for me. Ridiculous

Does this mean we'll get a "the philosophy of the housing crisis" video?

the title of the video is completely wrong. Landlords haven't 'ruined everything'.

@@lochnessmunster1189 You're right, you're right. They only ruined the common ownership of land -- and all the consequences which that has entailed.

@@TheMightyShell No, there never can be 'common ownership' of land. How would you ever own a house?

@@lochnessmunster1189 "never" -- Ever hear of "the commons"? Also, personal property != private property

@@TheMightyShell I have indeed heard of "the commons". And "the tragedy of the commons". Let's think about "common ownership" of land. Who specifically "owns" it? Everyone in the world?

I've found the same. Lived in an apartment owned by a big letting agency for 2 years and while it wasn't perfect, it had clear advantages. It was clear that they had numerous apartments with the same fixtures and fittings so anything that got damaged or needed to be replaced, they had ready at short notice, and since they had so many tenants, it was easy to have professionals on staff to service the apartments fairly quickly.

@@krombopulos_michael very true. I also haven't found the rent to be that much higher compared to private landlords, unless blind luck/personal relationships or sketchy situations. In that case it can get very good or really bad, but there is no way to know which one before it's too late.

It is these corporations buying up all that housing and jacking up the rents. Especially foreign companies that don't give a flying fuck about the culture, it's all about the money. I don't think you grasp the horror of all this. Sounds like you're still affluent enough to float above the rabble, taking personal experience and applying it to an idyllic fantasy that doesn't exist.

Landlords provide housing in the same way that scalpers provide products.

@@GTAVictor9128 Yep. How could we ever live without them? Only a capitalist can consider a homeless person to be a mooch on society, but a landlord as being beneficial to it.

Hey, that's so unfair. Leeches have been proven useful to society at times before modern medicine.\

At least leeches have _some_ level of usefulness in the grand scheme of things (they can secrete blood thinners, which can be useful for those more prone to clots). Landlords don't even have that.

@@sonicboy678 😆I stand corrected.

thats honestly the opposite of what would create true effective change to the system. we need to burn down the majority of the buildings that the well off are safely encasing themselves in to protect them from the wrath of the billions of humans they are trying to starve to death

Unfortunately, simply increasing supply for housing won't fix the issue as much of the cheap housing will be bought up by predatory developers. What you really need to do is abolish landlordism, which you can't do all at once due to a lack of political will but you can accomplish by turning up the heat with reforms like limiting the number of houses that a single landlord can own, as a company or otherwise, and by recognizing tenants' unions as legal entities with bargaining rights. Otherwise, you'll just end up with the same induced housing scarcity as before.

How about we just deport the 1 billion illegals here so 4 million homeless Americans can actually live somewhere. And we can do it without turning nice areas into crime ridden shitholes? Thoughts?

The best apartment I lived in had the ceiling cave in, which eventually did get fixed, but the communal laundry never worked and the landlords blamed the tenants for it. You could only pay rent in person with a check as well.

Maybe the corpse of that butchery shop owner is laying there at the bottom of the elevator shaft after all these years!

Just finished the monopoly video and was trying to find this comment.

Language

and vandalizing the interior, dont just squat

So trump was right. You do live in a shithole, you just admitted it

It's one type of civilised society. It doesn't have to be the only model. There are down-sides too. Home ownership tends to reduce mobility - people get stuck living in an area they might not want to because moving is expensive. A predominantly home-renting society can be just as civilised, if it's set up in such a way that the cost of renting is affordable even to the lowest income levels, and the housing is regulated in order to ensure that even the worst of it is still of a liveable quality. But that isn't what we have.

​@@vylbird8014 Given your conditions, yes I would agree with that, but only with the conditions you gave. Which is hardly the case in the real life. Louis Rossman the apple notebook repair guy gives a nice example. Rent is too damn high because of the compound effect of loans on properties being rented out. It's not like the landlords through their evilness put the rent as high as possible, they are forced to do it through agreement on the loan from the bank. Still the effect is that it pretty much nullifies your conditions, meaning that living in US cities from rent point of view is uncivilized.

@@KrupyFren "It's not like the landlords through their evilness put the rent as high as possible..." I hate to tell you this, I really, really do- but yes, yes they did and do. Not to say that every landlord does, but there's an entire sub-industry of companies that compile rent in a given area and sell that data to landlords to enable them to maximize their rates to the highest tenable rate in the area. Tenable is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, too-

Give people homes. And they can’t sleep in their home without a bed, so give them a bed too. And to inquire about getting a job they’ll probably need a phone and internet. so give them that as well. Should add on food, TP, soap, clothes…Just give everyone what they need. All problems solved ♥️

Give people homes. And they can’t sleep in their home without a bed, so give them a bed too. And to inquire about getting a job they’ll probably need a phone and internet. so give them that as well. Should add on food, TP, soap, clothes…Just give everyone what they need. All problems solved ♥️

@@cassie3125 I get it cassie, you hate humans.