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A Boring Dystopia
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Think there's also difference between someone renting their mass bought properties vs someone renting their extra flat for a fair price. Corporations renting properties they mass bought should be illegal.
What's "a fair price"? 1% over production + maintenance costs is already exploitative, in the sense that rich people who can afford to buy the flats will do so because they will get passive income from it, and poor people who can't afford housing will be forced to rent at prices higher than otherwise.
So, build the housing socially by legal mandate. Only in capitalism "housing is too cheap" can be a bad thing
Not necessarily. The government literally prints the money with which workers can be paid, there's no need to increase taxes to pay for such housing. Modern monetary theory is cool!
Yes, we're far, but that doesn't make reformist measures more likely, they're impossible to carry out without huge worker organizing through unions and socialist parties.