well the thing is that as soon as you try something like even reducing the profits of landlords, they have the power of the state behind them. and if you try to fight that legally then the state will just use violence in the form of the army or the police to protect private property. at which point, if you're now more or less in insurrection against landlords, you may as well go the whole way.
you can't just reform this one small thing away, because it's a whole part of the system of capitalism and private property that the state literally exists to uphold at all costs. so you can't unless you have a revolution basically
Wage a war on the landlord class on every front with the goal of reducing their numbers, properties and profits in every way possible while benefitting public housing, housing coops, land trusts and tenants whenever possible.
Making life miserable for landlords is fairly trivial: rent control, taxes, licensing requirements, building permits, eviction prevention, etc. But you've got to adequately providing housing through your preferred channels then your just causing a housing crisis. Another pitfall of this strategy is that it will affect petit-landlords first and you will be painted as pro big landlord.
Massive public housing is how European social democrats "solved" this problem. Check out Vienna's Karl Marx building. Drop a fuck ton of fresh public housing on the market at well below market rate and you fuck over every landlord in the city and maybe some in the next city over. People will legit try to smear you because the wait list for your new public housing is decades long.
However, it requires holding onto power in some capacity to keep public housing running. Let the bougies take over again and they'll defund and privatize your public housing asap. A slower but more resiliant strategy might be fronting benefits, tax cuts, and deregulating the coops and land trusts. Get the public housing up but also patron the more socialist independent housing organizations and you might stay in power to keep your public housing going.
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well the thing is that as soon as you try something like even reducing the profits of landlords, they have the power of the state behind them. and if you try to fight that legally then the state will just use violence in the form of the army or the police to protect private property. at which point, if you're now more or less in insurrection against landlords, you may as well go the whole way.
you can't just reform this one small thing away, because it's a whole part of the system of capitalism and private property that the state literally exists to uphold at all costs. so you can't unless you have a revolution basically
Wage a war on the landlord class on every front with the goal of reducing their numbers, properties and profits in every way possible while benefitting public housing, housing coops, land trusts and tenants whenever possible.
Making life miserable for landlords is fairly trivial: rent control, taxes, licensing requirements, building permits, eviction prevention, etc. But you've got to adequately providing housing through your preferred channels then your just causing a housing crisis. Another pitfall of this strategy is that it will affect petit-landlords first and you will be painted as pro big landlord.
Massive public housing is how European social democrats "solved" this problem. Check out Vienna's Karl Marx building. Drop a fuck ton of fresh public housing on the market at well below market rate and you fuck over every landlord in the city and maybe some in the next city over. People will legit try to smear you because the wait list for your new public housing is decades long.
However, it requires holding onto power in some capacity to keep public housing running. Let the bougies take over again and they'll defund and privatize your public housing asap. A slower but more resiliant strategy might be fronting benefits, tax cuts, and deregulating the coops and land trusts. Get the public housing up but also patron the more socialist independent housing organizations and you might stay in power to keep your public housing going.