“Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.” – Benjamin Spock
I can’t speak for people in urban settings but in rural areas landlords are your neighbors as well as your handyman. They see you outside when they go by and make sure to honk and wave, they know the names of your whole family and actually care about you. So before demonizing everyone who has a specific title please take into account they’re not all the same.
and they still throw you out on the street the moment you can’t pay rent just like anywhere else. landlords are not and never will be your friends. I grew up in the country buddy don’t come at me with this hokey small town bullshit, rural landlords are no different
Everyone on this website is so disgusting and ignorant.
If you actually read the CNN article, you’ll see how landlords running out of money is also negatively affecting tenants, as it’s hurting their ability to maintain properties and provide housing generally.
The system is in need of major reform but needlessly villainizing all landlords/housing providers in the short term is not going to do anything to help the massive housing shortage that exists in the U.S.
Also keep in mind that a not insignificant percentage of landlords are nonprofits and providers of affordable and subsidized housing. If they’re suffering, their ability to provide affordable housing suffers as well.
@thepatternneveralters
Landlords are not “housing providers”
In urban centers, podunk towns, and everywhere in between they actively snatch up otherwise affordable real estate in order to maintain a stranglehold on renters through inflation and artificial scarcity.
Landlords do not contribute to the economy or the communities they hold property in, they actively parisitize them.
They garner income through the simple act of owning a building, and writ large, will fight tenants tooth and nail to wriggle out of responsibility for maintenance and repairs on the properties they hold, because those responsibilities cut into their bottom line.
And when we get into the further egregious mess of corporate landlords and property holders, they aren’t even incentivized to prevent evictions to ensure a stable rental income, because recent bailout measures have resulted in lucrative schemes for corp. landlords through which they make MORE money by evicting tenants, getting insurance bailouts, and generating high eviction rates/ tenant turnover to generate as much as possible in quarterly profits
Landlords at all levels, from your corporate grave tillers to your “neighborly small-town” property renters are parasites who extract wealth from their tenants as a further reward for owning properties.
Landlords are not your friends, and about this at least, Mao was right.
Landlords don’t provide housing, construction workers do that. Landlords’ entire job description is to literally do the opposite of providing housing: they withhold it, and prevent anyone from living there without forking over half their wages
And feel-good bullshit like “they know your name” doesn’t change the fact that landlords have a parasitic adversarial relationship with their tenants, bleeding them dry while producing nothing of value
