I would love a co op

Correct, but only one mountain can be climbed at a time. We have more reliable food sources than housing sources right now.

Those rentals should be a social project not a profit driven one.

I said achieve wealth. These people aren’t generating large amounts of personal wealth by withholding a basic human right from someone

Choosing to use a basic human right as a form of income is scummy. All landlords are scum, whether they are rich or not.

You should never achieve wealth by the oppression of someone else. Housing is a human right, not a salary.

The rent that pays the mortgage he couldn’t afford to pay. All rent is is paying someone else’s mortgage.

If you buy it, live in it. Stop contributing to the housing crisis. Greed got us here, it certainly won’t get us out.

Rentals should be socialized, not owned by corporations or private citizens.

So you’re keeping home ownership away from someone who can afford to pay your mortgage is what you’re really saying.

I feel like you watched me grow up. For a long time I was smart enough to pick things up naturally, I was even offered to skip grades.

Then the math got complicated and I didn’t know how to learn it. I went from being the smart kid to being the stupid one in remedial math. Being smart was all I had at that point, so when I “lost” that, I lost everything in my eyes. I was stupid and I was never going to be anything because of it.

I ended up getting my GED as an adult and I now have a promising career in insurance- so I didn’t really lose everything, but when I was 15 it sure felt like I had.