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In reply to the discussion: Why not outlaw landlordism? [View all]Yupster
(14,308 posts)The ability and need to rent is such a natural economic need, that it won't go away.
Traveling nurses would stay in apartments that will now be labeled as hotels.
Same with anyone else wanting to rent. All of the sudden millions of hotels that charged by the month would crop up.
Also, millions of people would stay in other people's homes. They wouldn't pay rent. They'd just be free visitors who would pay a monthly charge for upkeep of the property. The monthly cost would absolutely not be called rent.
You just can't do away with laws of economics.
It's like when I was a college history major and communism sounded so good. Then you realize how there's no way it could work, and how in every case it's been tried you end up with bayonets trying to make people work.