And I have no interest in a system where a small cabal of speculators are hoarding all the land, and are just collecting rent from me, while providing zero value-add.
Land isn't widgets. Unlike industrialists, real-estate 'Investors'[1] aren't making any more of it. The world would go on just fine, better even, if we got rid of all of them.
[1] Not to be confused with developers, who actually build useful things.
> And I have no interest in a system where a small cabal of speculators are hoarding all the land, and are just collecting rent from me, while providing zero value-add.
According to [1], "the national census identified that owner-occupied households were 60.6% of all household units".
While I'd like that percentage to be higher and would also like to prohibit corporations from owning thousands of housing units, let's also recognize that it is nowhere near a "small cabal" who own all housing, when well over 50% is owned by those who live in them.
Land isn't widgets. Unlike industrialists, real-estate 'Investors'[1] aren't making any more of it. The world would go on just fine, better even, if we got rid of all of them.
[1] Not to be confused with developers, who actually build useful things.