re: Why are guns a right in the Constitution but not affordable housing?

Sorry its called Das Kapital

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don’t necessarily agree with him totally, but he’s got a point

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In a utopian fantasy, completely unrealistic and historically proven to be totally non-feasible sort of way, yea.

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I would start by putting limits on sudden rent increases if you lived in an area for ____ years

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Ok. What about rate increases on mortgages of owners?

Cost of building supplies? We capping that too?

Keeping maintenance employees wages depressed? We doing that?

Replacement HVAC and appliances. We capping that too?

Property taxes. We lowering or capping them?

Increase in taxes on the landlord. Capping? Lowering?

Do you agree to never get a raise as you work? As other costs rise? You cost your employer more in wages.

I love the bunch who scream “increase my wages!!!” while also screaming “Keep rent cheap!!”

frick off, troll.

Death to all commies.

Why dont i have the right to do that? Exactly what an amendment is for

I guess HUD and Section 8 don’t exist ? If you can’t find affordable housing in this country, it’s your problem not everyone one else’s. There are multiple programs that provide housing for the less fortunate.

It’s not people’s fault that people are moving into their area and their wage isnt changing but their rent is. That’s the start of homelessness. Those tenants are still citizens that contribute

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So is minimum wage a livable wage?

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It depends on the amount of expenses you wish to incur.

We know people can live off the land free of charge.

A true minimum wage is zero. We have that and we call those internships. It’s a great system that allows people to acquire knowledge and experience to become more marketable.

The problem is a minimum wage that makes otherwise willing people unemployable at an arbitrary wage rate.

Do you ever wonder how many people could have learned lessons of the workplace to become more marketable employees worth higher wages had it not been illegal for them to be employed at lower wage rates?

Minimum wage as it currently exists is an obstacle to entering the workforce.

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Why dont i have the right to do that? Exactly what an amendment is for

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So you propose a Constitutional amendment to not raise rent?

I can think of about a billion things that we could pass an amendment for that would improve society more (technically this would harm society (look at what rent control has done in NYC) so everything that has a "no change" or better effect on society would be superior to your idea).

For starters, who as a landlord can afford to eat the costs? Big corporations (BlackRock, for example) and the government. A guy who has invested in a couple of apartment buildings cannot just keep prices down because you're sad that it's cutting into your clubbing budget, nor should he be forced to. Your idea would lead to monopolization of housing. Also, if there were a market for cheaper housing, someone would have done it. Lots of businesses do quite well catering to the cheap and the poor. Dollar Tree is wildly successful.

The laws of economics are as immutable as the laws of physics. You cannot legislate them away.

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capitalism. Arabs and Chinese and rich Americans buy houses they don't live in. you pay rent.

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so am i rich if i own a 2nd home that i rent? is that how it works?

so who is supposed to pay and own homes that are rentals?

where in louisiana are huge hedge funds, the arabs adn chinese buying and owning subdivisions? be specific