• @InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    321 month ago

    They can be for profit.

    But limited, a landlord has 1-2 apartments, not 50, and corporations are right out, as are foreign owners.

    Housing needs to be about housing, healthcare needs to focus on healthcare.

    • @suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml
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      141 month ago

      I care less about the number of units the landord has(within reason) than where they live. If a guy wants to rent a dozen units a few blocks from his own house, fine. But some asshole 5 states away renting a house he’s never going to lay eyes on? Fuck off.

      • @lengau@midwest.social
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        71 month ago

        Some of the worst landlords in my city are locals who rent out 1-2 houses to students.

        The least bad landlord AFAICT is a local corporation that mostly rents out commercial space but has a few residential rentals too.

        • @suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml
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          41 month ago

          I’m not saying local landlords will necesarily be good landlords, I just want them within the jurisdiction they rent in. I want the people they know irl to know they’re assholes and slumlords. I want the local news to be able to stop by their house and ask them why they suck. I want the people who live in their rentals to take all that shit to the same local government they have to deal with for anything they want to do apart from runing rentals.

    • @TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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      61 month ago

      Housing needs to be about housing, healthcare needs to focus on healthcare.

      That’s why I think profit needs to be eliminated from the equation. With it, the priority will always be maximizing profit, with providing a quality product or service being secondary, or even incidental.

      • @InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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        21 month ago

        We used to be able to pull it off, then citizens united and other lobbying meant corporations can ‘add to cart’ any laws they want.

        Break campaign finance and things can actually get better.

    • @sibachian@lemmy.ml
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      31 month ago

      you can’t both expect profit and good maintenance. pick one, or the other. in all things. that’s why roads aren’t privatized. or the fire brigade. etc.

      • @InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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        11 month ago

        Yeah, but roads and the fire brigade are shit in many states, because the construction company is run by the governors idiot brother.

          • @InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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            1 month ago

            Hahaha hahaha.

            Oh, you were being serious? Let me laugh harder.

            The south is just corruption incarnate, they have anti-nepotism laws, they’re trivial to get around.

            Good ol boy network always wins.