idontlikesand@lemmy.catoVancouver@lemmy.ca•B.C. homeowners reveal they have the space but are reluctant to rent: poll
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1 year agoCall me a skeptical, but I feel like reactions like yours are the intended outcome of the article where anger is shifted towards people living in their homes who don’t want roommates. And not on the actual problem of people and companies buying up properties without the intention of living in them, but renting them out or as pure investment assets to sit on and leave empty.
Yeah, article seemed to be asking homeowners if phrased another way is do you want to live with roommates? I think most people if they had the luxury would say no.
Then you got people angry at those people, which may have been the goal of the article to shift focus to also being mad at people living in their homes. As opposed to the biggest contributor of problem being individuals and corporations buying up and hoarding property they don’t plan to live in and treat only as investment assets. Those are the areas that need to start having restrictions on.