The Victims of the Eviction Moratorium

Re:The Victims of the Eviction Moratorium by refurb on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:35PM (#26245034)

This seems like a great theoretical internet take and not applicable to the real world in the least.

So some 50 year old blue collar dude who saves just enough to buy a duplex and live in half of it, but can’t stop working or he’ll starve, has suddenly been propelled from the working class into the lazy, cigar-smoking, top hat twirling capital class?

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Re:The Victims of the Eviction Moratorium by yellowapple on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:57PM (#26245238)

Yes.

If he wants to not be in that "lazy, cigar-smoking, top hat twirling capital class" (as you put it - because apparently hyperbole and gross misrepresentation of an argument counts as "discussion" on Hacker News nowadays), he is welcome to transition his ownership of that duplex into, say, a housing cooperative consisting of himself and the other half of that duplex (or - more likely - a cooperative for the land and the duplex's exterior, and retain ownership of his own unit while putting the other unit up for sale - effectively forming a COA, but cooperatively owned).

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Re:The Victims of the Eviction Moratorium by refurb on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @12:26AM (#26246886)

Don't put the hyperbole on me. I'm just repeating what I hear from the far left. They love to pain landlords as some evil 1%ers when in fact many are middle income people trying to get by.

And great, start a cooperative. But for everyone else who wants to rent a place, there are landlords.

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