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> Free use comes with responsibility: whoever occupies a home must keep it in excellent condition and cover its ongoing maintenance costs. If you can’t afford t
by znpy 24d ago
> Free use comes with responsibility: whoever occupies a home must keep it in excellent condition and cover its ongoing maintenance costs. If you can’t afford to properly maintain a particular home, you can’t occupy it
That’s likely to be the loophole: have high costs fir maintenance and boom, you’re creating a method to evict people.
Also, who defines what “excellent conditions” means? Some kind if HOA? And who’s checking? What happens when somebody fails at keeping a house in “excellent condition” ? Do they get evicted? Where do they go? If they couldn’t keep up with the previous house and are now burdened with the costs of moving somewhere else (maybe even in the same city) how can they keep up with maintenance of another house?
Yeah, once again… “sounds good, doesn’t work”.
- overtone1000 24d agoAgreed and then some. It's a decent thought experiment, but I think the lesson would be why housing (and many social problems) are so difficult to solve. But, the original tweet seems to frame it more like, "Why haven't we done this already?!"