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Re:Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @05:55AM (#26887424)
Certainly its a difficult subject, but I prefer owning something, rather than leasehold "renting for 100 years" as if we still have feudalism
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Re:Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake by VBprogrammer on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @02:58PM (#26893985)
Freehold is one thing on a block of flats. The poor people who got conned into buying a house on a freehold basis where the legal protection for rent increases doesn't apply. That is a different matter.
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