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radicalgraff · 3 months

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"Sex work is real work, unlike being a landlord"

Spotted in a public bathroom in California

#graffiti #graff #Abolish rent #bathroom graffiti

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fuckyeahanarchistposters · 3 months

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"Evict your Landlord. Not the Poor"

#abolish rent #rent is theft

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memphisfoodnotbombs · 5 months

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✨Tag your landlord 💫

#RentIsTheft #PropertyValues #ProfitMotive #Rent #Landlord #Housing #HousingIsAHumanRight #HomesNotBombs #FoodNotBombs #FoodNotBombsMemphis #MemphisFoodNotBombs #Leftist #Leftism #Humanitarianism #HumanRights #Homelessness #Airbnb #PropertyManagement #RealEstate

#food not bombs #foodnotbombs #anarchist #anarchism #anarchy #food is a human right #foodisaright #lgbtq #vegan #abolish capitalism #rental #renting #fuck landlords #landlords are parasites #anti capitalist

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speak-on-it · 4 months

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Living in the U.S right now is so bizarre

Christmas is still happening despite the genocide of the Palestinian people and despite the fact that the remaining churches are housing displaced individuals and surrounded by snipers.

Living in the U.S right now is so bizarre

an old, pedophilic capitalist is sending billions of dollars to Israel and paying for their education and housing when in our own country people don't have access to affordable education and we're dealing with a housing crisis

Living in the U.S right now is so bizarre

the police are an occupying force that's brutalizing POC citizens, families are suffering at the border, and billionaires and corporations are allowed to destroy the planet, as long as they're making a profit

Sorry, did I say living in the U.S is bizarre? What I meant was: its a fucking nightmare

#nobody can afford rent #Nobody can afford groceries #free gaza #free palestine #capitalism #global issues #fuck america #fuck israel #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #politics #abolish capitalism #abolish the police #abolish ice

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redheadedfailgirl · 1 month

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Looking at floor plans and prices for available apartments in Seattle is both reassuring and intensely horrifying. Like I can afford that now but will I be able to in the future? Will my roommates? How much money will be left over? Will I be sane? Rent is fucking absurd and landlord and fucking evil and it should be illegal to put down a borderline reasonable cost for an apartment and then have folks click on it only to find out the rent is per person. I'll fucking kill you.

#rent #capitalism #landlords #should all be abolished and killed and murderified #the void

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tanadrin · 11 months

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Maybe a better analogy for exploitative social classes would be "vulture" as opposed to "parasite"? Though that's less ableist and more unfair to birbs that play an important ecological role and don't deserve the reputation they get.

idk man, do landlords form a coherent class these days? a landlord can be anybody from somebody who rents out the condo they inherited from their dead mom to an investor in a giant national property chain like Deutsche Wohnen. there are exploitative jobs, maybe, but this smacks of the urge to create a coherent category of Bad People Whomst If We Only Got Rid Of, Everything Would Be Better, which I think is kinda BS.

objectively, a lot of landlords are not very good at their jobs (this is why the phrase "the landlord special" has entered the lexicon) and some are really exploitative. but so are a lot of office managers. landlords being intrinsically tainted by sin doesn't seem like the problm. and if you think there are too many people renting out property vs owning it, and this contributes to the lack of housing, or if you think real estate speculation is a drag on the economy, there are plenty of policy levers to choose from to correct for this.

historically a lot of the animus directed at landlords came from the fact that "landlord" usually meant a literal lord of some description, like somebody who owned a vast estate with tenant farmers who acquired that wealth over generations of feudal conquest and peasant-oppression. and that's pretty shitty! but even then, the remedy for that can be anodyne and unsexy policy--big inheritance taxes dismantled most of the large landed estates in the british isles over the course of the 20th century, for instance. small time modern landlords, however lazy or exploitative, or even big evil property investment companies, strike me as fundamentally different animals. like, are they great for the economy? maybe not! but there are a lot of jobs that are not great for the economy that we don't waste time coming up with new ways of hating, and there more productive uses of our energy to correct these problems than figuring out which gross animal to compare them to.

#never really gotten on the landlord hate train #i rent and honestly it's fine #renter protections are better here than they are in the states which helps #but 'landlords are parasites/vultures' just doesn't strike me as useful rhetoric #you're gonna get a lot more traction #talking about specific problems and ways you want to address them #it's not clear to me how you would abolish 'landlords' entirely #unless you very strongly circumscribed property rights #and made renting actually illegal #which seems impractical!#like that raises a ton of questions about implementation #when you could just try more tried and true policies #like a georgist land tax #or viennese style social housing #or taxes on real estate speculation #or a long list of other policies

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chronicallycouchbound · 9 months

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Underrepresentation in Homelessness Statistics

Any statistics around homelessness are greatly underrepresented. Here’s why:

• The numbers that tell how many unhoused people are in the United States are done using something called Point In Time (PIT) counts.

• PIT numbers are used to identify needs for services, and help shelters qualify for funding.

• PIT counts are done on a random night in January every year.

• PIT numbers only count people who are legally considered homeless (couch surfing isn’t considered homelessness, legally) This means PIT counts are only counting people in shelter beds, and those visibly sleeping outside.

• On this random night in January, it’s often freezing. When I was unhoused in New England winters, I can tell you I wasn’t sleeping outside. I’d stay up and walk around if I couldn’t find a place to crash, and sleep in the daytime. I knew sleep meant death. Most people who do sleep outdoors are usually hidden well, because that means warmth and safety.

• Most shelters simply do not have the funding to staff outreach workers to go out to do PIT counts. Even if they have the funding, it’s hard to find unhoused people, so staying out the whole night is difficult.

• From unofficial counts done similarly to PIT counts in warmer months, it’s easy to see booming numbers of unhoused people. More people aren’t unhoused in the summer, it’s just less dangerous to sleep outdoors.

• PIT counts especially misrepresent youth, disabled people and other marginalized people, because they’re often couch surfing while homeless. Couch surfing is not legally considered homelessness.

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cupcakechemistsblog · 1 year

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“The top 10 landlords reported record profits last year at the same time as tenants made a record number of quality complaints.”

“The CHMC report has inspired a renewed call for increasing housing supply. […] If landlords are incentivized to build, would they choose to build affordable housing? It may be more profitable to not build at all”

(also consider subscribing to fightback if you can, it supports the publication of these articles!)

#Fightback #anti capitalism #capitalist hell #marxist #imt #international marxist tendency #communism #read this one and thought tumblr would find it interesting #landlords #fuck landlords #rent #rent is theft #abolish landlords #abolish capitalism

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objectivistnerd · 2 years

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We don’t need to get rid of landlords. We just need to make housing so plentiful that landlords compete for tenants, instead of the other way around. Scrapping zoning laws and useless regulations, while difficult, is a lot more practical than whatever cockamamie scheme the syndicalists or whoever are cooking up on Twitblr.

#economic rents are only possible because rentiers are shielded from market forces #just abolish single family zoning and you're well on your way #build more housing

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radicalgraff · 4 months

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Anti-landlord sticker spotted in Montreal, Quebec

#sticker #stickers #Abolish landlords #abolish rent

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fuckyeahanarchistposters · 2 years

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“Gays are not going to hell, but landlords are"

Graphic by EJnoodles

#abolish landlords #be gay do crime #abolish rent

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figureinthedistance · 2 years

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i think i shld be able 2 get excited abt the progress of time n the shifts in seasons + part of this shld be enjoying transitioning from one month to the next. i dont think the first day of every month should b approached w dread + defined by the payment of rent

#radical approach: abolish rent #reformist approach: normalize paying rent on the 15th

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meaningtotellyou · 1 year

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the pleasing bags restock tomorrow and i literally can’t afford one