was reading a thread on twitter about this. i know it’s a topic that comes up every so often on communist spaces too, how do we approach house ownership - i don’t mean a house to live in, I mean owning a second home that they won’t live in?
I might come into a second home through inheritance at some point (hoping my parents still live long though lol). getting through a first home is probably going to be a mess bc of how i live in it with my siblings and here you get a mortgage until you die, because it makes more sense for taxes. Usually when kids inherit a home, they sell it because they’re already living somewhere else and the next owner inherits the mortgage + a new one. oh well it’s still far off lol, we’ll see when we get there.
but if you come into inheriting a second home… what is the best solution? sell it to someone who will rent it out instead of you?
i know usually these discussions revolve around no ethical consumption in capitalism but they never seem to reach a final answer.
im from a post socialist state and my grandparents technically had two properties, their state rented apartment and their small farm…
my opinion is that individual circumstances arent as important as the system itself… if u have 2 properties or no property, it doesnt change the reality of the system…
if u want, u can keep the house… it does not change much… my grandparents lived in a system were everybody received housing, their farm did not matter…
having a second property does not count as being capitalistic unless u rent it for profit…
if u want, u can sell it for a small price so that people in need can move in, not those planning to become landlords.
even better, u could donate it (?) to a group home type organization for those who are mentally disabled or foster kids aging out of the system… idk how that works but thats what i would do