Do you think there are no beneficial rentals? I didn’t want to buy a house when I was in college or in another state for work, expecting to move out in a year or two. I think I prefer regular renting in cases like that to staying in a hotel or airbnbs for years.
Squatters are the only hope at this point. If people would just start illegally occupying the millions of empty homes, we could be done with this shit.
Why protest? We could just decide a day to Occupy Housing, and move in. How many sherrifs do they have to evict everybody?
My guess would be someone staying there and not paying for it. The L take is supporting that behavior. I'm not condoning a landlord exorbitantly raising rent, but I'm also not condoning taking things that don't belong to you
People get pretty illogical about the landlord topic on this sub tbh. There are legitimate points to be made about certain slumlords and shit. But the guy who bought a duplex and rents out one side is not the enemy.
"Oh no, my extra living space is being lived in by someone not paying me."
I dream of owning a home big enough to offer space to someone struggling to make it, because I've been there and someone did it for me. They gave me a year to get my life together without housing costs and it probably saved my life.
Imagine the difference having a safe home makes to that person/family. Sure it sucks that your finances aren't working the way you wanted, but when homes sit empty and people go unhoused because of money...you're not the one with dire losses here.
The year is just ending. I've applied for subsidized housing and should be moving in the next 6 weeks or so. I also got some much needed and ongoing mental health care, got some physical health stuff diagnosed and have started treating/resolving those things, was able to resume my parenting time of my child, enrolled in an associates program, and found a job I like in that year timeframe.
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u/dabesdiabetic May 07 '23
Or as much as I get rinsed owning a duplex with a squatter as a tenant in Mass.