Around 70% of Canadians own their home and as such identify with landlords more than tenants. Home ownership is closely correlated with age, and older people have higher voter turnout, so they want to appeal to them. In addition, younger people who do vote are much more likely to already be voting NDP.
Owning the home you live in is personal property, owning a home to rent out is capital -- you are using this asset to make money.
The home you live in won't provide real I come, as to realize any gains from the asset you have to sell and move -- and to live somewhere else will cost money too. Only boomers and people who don't get it think there is value in a home asset. It's really just a cheaper way to have a place to live versus renting.
Yes, there is an advantage over renting, but that is just an argument to be made for everyone owning their home.
Somewhat, but there's a difference in how much your ideology is being informed by material conditions depending on how ideologically aware you already are. IE, most normal people have no consistent ideology, and are more susceptible to this, whereas an ideologically rigorous communist should be more resilient to being swayed. The problem, as it is with most things, is that most people aren't communists.
I don't think the answer is that leftists should be renters forever or whatever (nor am I accusing you of making that claim), but I think a lot of leftists need to unlearn the capitalist propaganda of homeownership as the American dream or whatever. Homeowners have reactionary class interests, they directly profit from homelessness/expensive housing, etc. A homeowner is a small-scale land speculator.
Yeah but people's views aren't totally dependent on material interests. If I'm homeless I'm more likely to support policies that help the homeless, but that doesn't mean that everyone with a home will oppose such policies.
Yeah, on a long enough timescale that would probably be true, but climate change is going to throw such a huge wrench into things I don't feel comfortable making predictions.
Around 70% of Canadians own their home and as such identify with landlords more than tenants. Home ownership is closely correlated with age, and older people have higher voter turnout, so they want to appeal to them. In addition, younger people who do vote are much more likely to already be voting NDP.
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Owning the home you live in is personal property, owning a home to rent out is capital -- you are using this asset to make money.
The home you live in won't provide real I come, as to realize any gains from the asset you have to sell and move -- and to live somewhere else will cost money too. Only boomers and people who don't get it think there is value in a home asset. It's really just a cheaper way to have a place to live versus renting.
Yes, there is an advantage over renting, but that is just an argument to be made for everyone owning their home.
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Yes, but that doesn't mean that it's a good plan.
Somewhat, but there's a difference in how much your ideology is being informed by material conditions depending on how ideologically aware you already are. IE, most normal people have no consistent ideology, and are more susceptible to this, whereas an ideologically rigorous communist should be more resilient to being swayed. The problem, as it is with most things, is that most people aren't communists.
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I don't think the answer is that leftists should be renters forever or whatever (nor am I accusing you of making that claim), but I think a lot of leftists need to unlearn the capitalist propaganda of homeownership as the American dream or whatever. Homeowners have reactionary class interests, they directly profit from homelessness/expensive housing, etc. A homeowner is a small-scale land speculator.
Yeah but people's views aren't totally dependent on material interests. If I'm homeless I'm more likely to support policies that help the homeless, but that doesn't mean that everyone with a home will oppose such policies.
that makes sense, but also implies that if homes become increasingly owned by large multi home landlording companies that might shift
Yeah, on a long enough timescale that would probably be true, but climate change is going to throw such a huge wrench into things I don't feel comfortable making predictions.