@storyworker Certainly. No one can rent you a home...

Certainly. No one can rent you a home they don't own. if owning rental homes were forbidden then you could not be a renter, so you would presumably procure a home some other way.

What confuses me is that you present this as something to be glad about. Because @violetmadder said things should be different, and you say you're glad for the way things are, it looks like you're saying things should not be different.

Do you understand that your post could be read this way?

Like 23 August at 0:40 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

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story worker

@magitweeter @violetmadder yes, I do understand that I am expressing the fact that I am glad I am able to rent a house, meaning I don't have to buy one. Anything else that you or anyone else wishes to read into that, is not really any of my concern.
Do things need to be changed? Absolutely.
Does there still need to be some sort of way where people are able to their accommodation, when that is what suits them best? Also - Absolutely.

23 August at 1:13 | Open on radicalsocial.work

story worker

@magitweeter @violetmadder not everybody feels the need to own the home in which they live. From this point on, we are coming into the domain of invalidating that perspective for others.

23 August at 1:15 | Open on radicalsocial.work

Fabio G.

@storyworker

«meaning I don't have to buy one»

I would say this inference is incorrect. “Buy” and “rent” aren't the only housing occupancy arrangements there are. They're the most prevalent by far in societies like yours, but eliminating “rent” doesn't mean “buy” is the only option remaining.

Most likely, eliminating “rent” would leave room for many other types of housing arrangements, including some where you don't have to own the home you live in if that's not what you want.

@violetmadder

23 August at 1:38 | Open on mastodon.social

story worker

@magitweeter @violetmadder I'm happy with the inference, as it is. You're welcome to see it as being incorrect, though, but that's none of my business.

23 August at 3:28 | Open on radicalsocial.work

Fabio G.

@storyworker

You're happy that the only options for someone who wants a house to live in are buy and rent?

@violetmadder

23 August at 5:10 | Open on mastodon.social

story worker

@magitweeter @violetmadder no, I am content with the fact that those are the only "options" for *me* .
Where did you get the idea from that I applied the same principle to others?
I'm simply offering a single perspective, based on lived experience, and such perspectives can offer as much nuance as may be called for.

23 August at 5:13 | Open on radicalsocial.work

Fabio G. replied to story

@storyworker

Would you say this conversation was ever about anything other than yourself and your lived experience?

@violetmadder

23 August at 5:15 | Open on mastodon.social

story worker replied to Fabio

@magitweeter @violetmadder oh. absolutely not, it is all about my lived experience as a renter, with a long history of renting- good and bad.
Feel free to ignore it though, I know it goes against common narrative

23 August at 5:18 | Open on radicalsocial.work

Fabio G. replied to story

@storyworker

So it goes. We've been on different conversations all along. Ah well, i won't waste your time or mine any longer. Good luck.

@violetmadder

23 August at 5:23 | Open on mastodon.social

story worker replied to Fabio

@magitweeter @violetmadder it's been the same conversation.

Yours truly,
A *renter*.

23 August at 5:26 | Open on radicalsocial.work