Stop the Landlords!

Everybody dreams of someday owning their own home, but these days that hope seems further and further away. The only choice most of us have is to rent for a significant portion of our lives. It would be far better for us as a people to have apartments that folks can buy, as opposed to rent. That way smaller down payments would be necessary to purchase a first home, opening the gateway to proper home-ownership to millions who are currently shut out because of the enormous paywall that exists currently.

Those that own instead of rent typically take better care of their belongings, and their relationship both to their home and to their local economy is much healthier. Neither a landlord nor a tenant is much inclined to renovation or improvement, but that is not the case in ownership. When a homeowner improves his property he boosts the local economy and loves his property more. These kinds of benefits far outweigh the pros of capitalist overlords that own all of the apartment complexes in America.