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In reply to the discussion: Why not outlaw landlordism? [View all]Hekate
(90,517 posts)....from the university, community college, and private colleges are in need of rooms. You think they are going to BUY something? With what money, exactly? Many retirees, widows, and single women own their homes of many years but are barely making ends meet. With the kids gone, they can RENT out a spare room to someone who needs one. Or, they can rent out that spare room to a working adult on a long term basis.
This is not a new model by any means. It's not only my own Plan B in case of need, but on reflection something I recognize from my own parents' childhood during the Great Depression, as both sets of their parents rented out rooms in their homes in order to make ends meet until times got better. My own adult kids always seem to have a roomer on the premises.
I don't know where you are on the owner/renter experience, but you seem to need to think this through more carefully in the reality based world.
Otherwise, I'll have some of what you're smoking.