• Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      It is bizarre that you think that housing is used as a “speculative” investment.

      No it’s not.

      https://create.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Real-Estate-Speculation.pdf

      people simply need a place where they can store wealth without having it destroyed

      That’s what banks are for.

      If people could use money to store their wealth housing would be demonetized and prices would go down, then your coop model could naturally outcompete renting if it truly is superior. Fix the money, fix the world.

      This is a load of nonsense. People already use money to store their wealth.

      Coops haven’t taken off because it is in the financial interest of the owning class to maintain the status quo. They do everything in their power to buy up every property they can, and to influence the law to keep their business in power.

      The problem is systematic, it requires a fundamental change to the structure of our economy.