Rental property owners charge for the service of providing housing. Home Depot charges for the service of renting their tools. The bouncy house places charge for the service of renting their bouncy houses.
You aren’t doing yourself any favors bringing home depot into this, the owners are also greedy cunts.
There’s also a huge difference between something that protects you from the elements and renting a tool. There is no fundamental need for a tool, there is a fundamental need for shelter.
With how invested you are on your side, I wouldn’t be surprised to see you admit that you’re a landlord.
Home Depot is just one example. Any other example works.
People can grow their own food but choose to use the grocery store. The grocery store charges more for the food than they pay for it, because they’re providing a service.
Pharmacies sell medication and people buy from them. They are providing a service of having all the medication in one place.
People trade money for goods OR services. That’s how the economy operates.
So every business is a provider in your eyes? You would say that McDonald’s provides food for everyone? That’s ridiculous and not the way anyone uses the word provide it’s just been brought into landlording to make leeches feel better about themselves
hoard (verb.)
To accumulate money, food, or the like, in a hidden or carefully guarded place for preservation, future use, etc.
Rental property owners don’t hoard shelter.
I might be inclined to agree with you if landlords took out the locks and made those empty rental properties into interim homeless shelters, but we both know they would never do it.
“There are currently 28 vacant homes for every one person experiencing homelessness in the U.S.”
landlords dont provide shit, they hoard properties and make it harder for non-landlords to get housing, which drives up prices and forces more people to live on the streets.
they are a leech on society, making everything worse for the rest of us.
The article you linked is misleading. Houses are vacant for various reasons. Some are temporarily vacant:
some are undergoing renovations
some are between tenants
some are for sale
Some are more permanently vacant because they’re in such a state of disrepair that they can’t be lived in.
Rental property owners rent out properties, which keeps people housed and off the streets. However there’s been a lack of housing development over the past decade in the United States which leads to a housing shortage.
No they don’t, they charge people to live in property that they own. That’s not “providing” housing, that’s profiting off of someone else’s need.
Rental property owners charge for the service of providing housing. Home Depot charges for the service of renting their tools. The bouncy house places charge for the service of renting their bouncy houses.
You aren’t doing yourself any favors bringing home depot into this, the owners are also greedy cunts.
There’s also a huge difference between something that protects you from the elements and renting a tool. There is no fundamental need for a tool, there is a fundamental need for shelter.
With how invested you are on your side, I wouldn’t be surprised to see you admit that you’re a landlord.
Home Depot is just one example. Any other example works.
People can grow their own food but choose to use the grocery store. The grocery store charges more for the food than they pay for it, because they’re providing a service.
Pharmacies sell medication and people buy from them. They are providing a service of having all the medication in one place.
People trade money for goods OR services. That’s how the economy operates.
shelter is a human necessity. It is wrong to hoard shelter while there are people who have none.
Rental property owners don’t hoard shelter. The whole point is to provide housing to individuals and families.
providing and selling are 2 different things (renting is just selling the limited use of something)
“Providing” = making available for use
So every business is a provider in your eyes? You would say that McDonald’s provides food for everyone? That’s ridiculous and not the way anyone uses the word provide it’s just been brought into landlording to make leeches feel better about themselves
No, McDonald’s only provides food for those who choose to buy it. Not everyone eats at McDonald’s.
Rental property owners aren’t leeches. Leeches are the tenants who use the service the landlord provides and don’t pay for it.
hoard (verb.)
To accumulate money, food, or the like, in a hidden or carefully guarded place for preservation, future use, etc.
I might be inclined to agree with you if landlords took out the locks and made those empty rental properties into interim homeless shelters, but we both know they would never do it.
Rental properties aren’t hidden. There’s no cloak of invisibility spell surrounding them. So your definition doesn’t apply.
Rental properties aren’t empty except during renovation or between tenants. So your second assertion also doesn’t apply.
https://unitedwaynca.org/blog/vacant-homes-vs-homelessness-by-city/
“There are currently 28 vacant homes for every one person experiencing homelessness in the U.S.”
landlords dont provide shit, they hoard properties and make it harder for non-landlords to get housing, which drives up prices and forces more people to live on the streets.
they are a leech on society, making everything worse for the rest of us.
Again, there’s no hoarding.
The article you linked is misleading. Houses are vacant for various reasons. Some are temporarily vacant:
Some are more permanently vacant because they’re in such a state of disrepair that they can’t be lived in.
Rental property owners rent out properties, which keeps people housed and off the streets. However there’s been a lack of housing development over the past decade in the United States which leads to a housing shortage.
Gee, I wonder who’s responsibility it was to make sure that didn’t happen. ¯\(ツ)/¯