I miss the days when spider-man refused to pay rent until the damn door is fixed
When people say stuff like this it’s a huge opportunity. This is a well off white guy who’s never considered the morality of our society beyond children’s television. There is an apparent want to do good but no goal or direction to that instinct. Maybe I’m totally wrong here but this looks like someone who hasn’t been brainwashed by neoliberal vultures. If and when you see someone like this, someone who has some limited take but doesn’t even know what means testing is, they are a blank page to influence with Marxism.
It's an indication they could be reached. Quick everyone start spamming him with parenti clips. (unironically)
You can definitely gateway him into it.
“I like where your heart is at, and housing is clearly a passion for you! Have you considered getting involved in national right to remain and tenant union campaigns?”
If you don’t need the money then why even buy housing in the first place to own it? Why not just buy it up and donate it to people?
Well what's to stop a person from getting a donated home from reselling it? If the average person gets an apartment unit for free and then gets an offer to sell it to Blackrock for 6-7 figures? add in the eventualities of people needing to move or just having changes in their life. The system reasserts itself, people will be induced into becoming kulaks. Holland's idea isn't that bad, considering that I'll never see municipal housing being put into place by the government, or a tenant's rights initiative to put caps on what a landlord can extract in rent from a unit of housing.
I've been in situations where I could have benefitted from a benevolent landlord, and thus can relate to the impulse to occupy that position to benefit others as opposed to someone else who'd be seduced by the profit motive. I've also come to understand that the real solution is to eliminate the position of vulnerability altogether; Tom's probably not radicalized yet. you see this with liberal celebrities sometimes. The misguided attempts to be a good capitalist, like Jeffrey Wright and his African gold mine.
Jeffrey Wright
Oh you mean the guy future generations will recognize as James Baldwin? :Baldwin-weeping:
You see, that would be unfair because then some up-and-coming entrepreneurial landlord would miss out on an opportunity to prove themselves in the Free™ Market™. It's better if the housing is owned by people who actually know what to do with it.
"I have this romantic idea of owning slaves. but treating them much better than they deserve to be treated."
It is easier to imagine the end of the world, etc...
Yeah I agree, IF just charging the cost of maintenance that is the only way to be a good landlord. That’s not really different than public housing except that clearly our government isn’t gonna fucking build any public housing.
Same here, and it’s like YES. CORRECT. YOU WONT MAKE MONEY. THATS THE POINT. YOU SHOULDNT BE MAKING MONEY.
The only kinda bad thing imo is that any property you want to do this to needs to be held by some sort of foundation that is legally structured to prevent Holland or anyone else from diverting from the original idea.
But like, running an at cost housing non-profit with minimal overhead and good pay is my fantasy, so I've thought about how you'd have to try hard to make it work.
you could probably use initial funds to get a housing co-op started and go from there, to get paid back structure it like a fair loan at a better rate than a bank gives.
Then once that loan is paid, have it in the housing co-op foundation rules that they need to create loan funds for other co-ops to start. Or use that money they paid you back for the loan to make more housing co-ops or to literally give away houses to the homeless.
It doesn't help much unless you also add in a way for homeless people to get in on it though.
I've thought about this being a sort of thing I'd want to do if I suddenly got a bunch of money.
I mean, maintenance costs exist.
But people who rent units under the maintenance cost have historically been referred to as "Slum Lords".
Depending on the state of the market, buying an existing block could be cheaper than building one from scratch.
Or, yeah. Invite people in under a tenant's association and just establish a trust to fund repair/renovation. I have no idea how practical that would be in execution, but its definitely a worthy goal.
Well that is unforgivable. But be gentle, he has talked specifically in anti capitalist terms about how capitalism has ruined enjoyment of comics
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