If you are facing or have recently faced a renoviction by a flipper or merchant housing dealer, you may not understand the reason: greed. I recently went through a renoviction and it took me some time to see the reason why: the commodification of housing.

Better put as how to double your return on idle money by simply evicting the vulnerable and artificially inflating housing costs.

Big shout out to the conservative faction of “god what’s you to be richer at any cost” for bolting a moral veneer of piety to this cruel and commandment breaking (#8, #9, & #10) approach.

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
    305·
    4 months ago

    Something that is difficult to do over here because the longer a tenant has been in a rented place the more say they get over living there.

    Effectively once it’s been 5+ years, you no longer get to evict them. You can ask nicely if they’ll leave, otherwise you’re SOL.

    • ArbitraryValueEnglish
      61·
      4 months ago

      That seems like a very good reason not to let any renters stay over five years.

      • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
        13·
        4 months ago

        It’s scaling. There’s no hard cutoff. The longer a renter has been in, the more difficult to cancel their contact. The idea is that the longer someone has lived there, the more their life will have become reliant on being in that area, and hence uprooting them is less and less sensible.