ID: A Sophie Labelle 4 panel comic featuring Stephie in different poses, saying:

Landlords do not provide housing.

They buy and Hold more space than they need for themselves.

Then, they create a false scarcity and profit off of it.

What they’re doing is literally the opposite of providing housing.

    • eleitl@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      28 days ago

      What is stopping renters to use these then, and give a middle finger to the landlords?

      • twig@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        28 days ago

        A lot of people apply, but since co-op, market rate and non profit housing initiatives make up such a small portion of available housing in proportion to a population, it’s very hard to access.

      • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        28 days ago

        The real estate cartel, the landlords themselves are stopping this. If housing is treated as a human right, their profit evaporates, so they’ll never willingly let that happen. They intentionally make zoning harder, kill government initiatives to make housing cheaper, etc.

        It’s like asking a dictator to install democracy. Nothing short of a leftist takeover of the DNC, coupled with large scale local level cooperation, tenant unions, etc will solve this.