Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)

Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @07:43PM (#19802839)

Having the option to rent is a gateway to having the government own all property? You're going to have to explain your logic a bit, because so far your position sounds ridiculously wrong.

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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by dgzl on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @08:00PM (#19802999)

I think they were talking about the GP's hypothetical scenario, where renting would be llegal.

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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @08:43PM (#19803331)

So the claim is that verisimilitude's suggestion, that renting would be illegal, is a gateway the government owning all property and private ownership being illegal? I don't see how it's reasonable to suppose that would be the result. I also don't see how MagicPropmaker thinks that's what verisimilitude was thinking.

Am I missing something?

[Edit: I mean, I can see that renting being illegal is a restriction on use of property. That's a long distance from private property itself being illegal, though, and I don't see any reason to suppose that would be the end result - either the desired end result or the actual one.]

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