I would agree and add that companies are no option either. Can’t have the state handle that though, look at the German rail and telecommunications companies. Utterly broken.
Best thing I have found working sometimes is housing cooperatives. “Wohnungsbau Genossenschaft”. Which are incorporated as a non profit. But even those work only sometimes and only if most of the shares are owned by people actually living in the networks housing.
I would argue that being able to rent a house is necessary. That doesn’t mean we have to rent them from private landlords.
I would agree and add that companies are no option either. Can’t have the state handle that though, look at the German rail and telecommunications companies. Utterly broken.
Best thing I have found working sometimes is housing cooperatives. “Wohnungsbau Genossenschaft”. Which are incorporated as a non profit. But even those work only sometimes and only if most of the shares are owned by people actually living in the networks housing.