The war on home ownership can't be adequately addressed without reference to the UN's "Agenda 21," which was hatched at the 1992 Rio Gaia-Worship Summit by a collectivist named Maurice Strong, and which has been allowed to make massive strides in the 39 years since. If you haven't heard of it I suggest familiarizing yourselves with it, because it holds the potential to enslave the entire population of the world under a global totalitarian neo-feudalism enforced with an iron fist. An article which serves as a great intro is here:
https://www.atlassociety.org/post/sov...

Essentially the UN's Agenda involves:
- global, collectivist government and obliteration of all individual nations worldwide (natch);
- the elimination of property rights;
- the forced relocation of all non-urban residents from their land into mega-cities strung along a single giant "transit corridor" in every continent;
- the designation of all thusly-vacated-and-confiscated private lands as "wilderness areas" which are to be 100% off-limits to human presence of any kind, in perpetuity;
- the elimination of personal transportation, IOW the elimination of cars and even the dismantling of roadways;
- the elimination of the right to migration (i.e., travel) without State permission;
- 100% control of "urban planning," with people warehoused in pack-and-stack urban mega-anthills within State-approved cubicles (think: Bruce Willis' flat in "The Fifth Element);
- 100% control of appliances by government, via the "Internet of Things" - which means State-rationed heating, cooling, lighting, washing, electricity in general;
- a 100% State monopoly on medicine, which means your very body belongs to the State, not to you (a.k.a. slavery);
- 100% State control of childbearing;
- Children as wards of the State, not of their parents;
- etc.

That implies a massive variety of fires to be put out - and "fire-breaks" to be created for future prevention - but to confine this to the context of land use and home ownership, here are three stakes that we should be demanding that our politicians drive through the heart of this blood-sucking Agenda 21 monster:

1. A Constitutional Amendment to abolish property taxation, nationwide, as a human rights violation. As McCannon01 correctly stated, we are a nation of renters, not of homeowners. Not one American, even those who've paid off their mortgages in full, owns a home. Not one. For if you are compelled by law to make periodic payments to someone else, on pain of getting tossed into the street if you don't, then by definition you are a renter, not an owner.

Malta, Lichtenstein, Croatia, Thailand, Monaco, Fiji, the Cook Islands, New Zealand, Israel, Dubai, Bahrain are some of the countries where there is no residential property taxation at all, or at most a one-time tax on purchase or sale of a residence, but no perpetual, annual tax on property. The USA, once the leader of the free world, has a less-just tax policy than Croatia? Than Malta? Than Dubai? America should be leading the way by example - in abolishing the barbaric anachronism of residential property taxation entirely, as a new human rights paradigm for the entire world. We must fight to make that abolition a reality;

2. A nationwide review, divestiture and selloff to private American citizens, of all government-held lands not directly related to physical government facilities. Though it's predicated almost entirely on surface issues of stewardship and economic practicality rather than on core ethics and human rights, in 1999 the Cato Institute published a comprehensive blueprint for such a privatization:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa363.pdf

3. The de facto abolition of the "United Nations," a.k.a. The International Tyrants' Day Care Center, Manhattan Campus - comprising: a.) The cessation of all funding of that organization, b.) the expulsion of that organization from American soil, c.) the nullification of all "treaties" and agreements entered into under its auspices, d.) the public declaration of America's non-recognition of any legitimacy in the "UN"'s claim of authority over sovereign nations or any claim of legitimacy in its quasi-military forces, and e.) the strong recommendation to all of our allies that they follow suit on a through d. Let that remaining clutch of the world's tyrants stare at each other across plastic tables in the banquet hall of a greasy-spoon diner on Madagascar or Kiribati and plot their cartoon world-conquest schemes from there.

Longtime Objectivists will fondly recall the periodical called The Intellectual Activist. I think we've gotten a bit too lax on the whole "activist" thing...

Private landowner?

who was your comment directed to?

YOU are the definition of the "useful idiot."

Yup. And if I were an owner, I'd tell the Biden regime to try and enforce their ban.

The problem comes when the govt or big biz tells you want you have to do and when. And you will hop to it or be out on the street.

I saw the article earlier. I think it is dead on about what could happen. And to add to the misery, it isn't the gubmint alone, it is big money. Bill Gates and CCP China have been buying up a lot of land. Gates is now the largest landowner in the US.

The Biden regime has just thumbed their collective nose at SCOTUS. The eviction ban is going up again. Could this be the opening round of the summer offensive jdg mentioned?

Not sure what part of "east coast" you're on, but I had relatives in New Smyrna Beach and still in Titusville and the jump in insurance is a factor in buying a home there, not to mention the jump in real estate prices there in general.

I am a VERY similar circumstance. I live on the east coast of Florida. My insurance alone is $2500 per year.

I purchased my home in 1979, payed the bank off in 1994, and long ago the taxes (royal rent) alone outstripped what my mortgage and insurance combined used to be. If it continues I'll have to sell it just to escape the royal rent in my old age, but I still have to go someplace.

Thank you for the additional input, chad!

Maybe?

One of the problems with apts/communal living is the asshole next door that likes to turn up the volume and bass at 1 am.or likes to do jumping jacks in the apt above you...etc....etc.

After paying off my home I became more accutely aware of property taxes and insurance.

We never did own anything. You get a citation if your grass is too high. The tidy cop puts a citation on you if a paper cup ends up on your fence after a parade. Taxes keep going up. Can't throw certain things in your trash. I moved out of the manse into an apartment and I don't worry about anything. Let the owners worry about that crap.

The eviction ban was issued by the CDC and ruled unConstitutional by the Supreme Court as outside that agency's authority (which it clearly is). In reality, any governmental body attempting to put in place an eviction ban is subject to the Takings clause and MUST remunerate the land owner with the price of the rent.

The fed buying of shares supporting stock prices are the source of the funding. Large companies float new share offerings and get loans based on increasing share prices.
Blackrock and others are making asset purchases thanks to the fed supporting them with inflationary funding. This is to protect the (inflated) asset values that should have been allowed to rise or fall in the free market. They have been repeatedly bailed out by government and the fed.

I haven't heard of the Fed providing subsidies to any company. Are you thinking of SBA, which has been giving Covid-relief loans (some of which don't have to be paid back) to small businesses? I agree that that is less than ideal, but a lot of them have gone broke due to shutdowns forced by state and local governments in overreaction to Covid.

What the Fed has been doing is buying up a lot of stocks and bonds itself -- so much that most of the apparently rising stock market indices and non-rising interest rates of the past two years are artificial. This is both inflation and the picking of winners, and I'd prefer it not happen. But neither do I want to see the depression that would occur if we had the forced shutdown without the subsidies.

A lot of the retail trade that isn't going to local stores because they're closed is going to Amazon and to supermarkets that offer delivery (at least four chains just where I live). Hopefully we'll stay un-shutdown long enough that the market can adjust back.

There are rumors (most recently on brighteon.com) that Biden is planning, around mid August, to impose another year of shutdown, and that he expects big protests and intends to have the FBI commit a lot more false-flag violence during them. So when it happens we need to avoid being in places where riots will occur.

Another issue to be considered is the meddling by the fed in providing infinite free monies to large companies that they can then use to buy assets - which does drive up prices and crowd out individuals from the market.
It is NOT free market capitalism at work. It IS government meddling - controlled by those who 'invest' in buying politicians. This manipulation has been growing and growing for more than a century.
The 'socialism' you note is being done in great measure by looters under cover while controlling government meddling to their own advantage.
Of course useful idiots are demanding more government meddling in their voluntary ignorance of economic reality.
Everyone who lacks 'pull' is being robbed including most small property owners and landlords who have no government provided funding.

This sounds to me too much like a socialist denying the right of property ownership. I didn't expect to see anything like that here.

The reason homes are in short supply (and companies like BlackRock are starting to monopolize them) is urban planning/zoning, which acts as a cartel, forcing most owners of unbuilt land to keep it that way in order to create the shortage. (The cartel consists of local owners of existing homes, who operate the planning agencies in the way that maximizes prices and thus their own profit.) This problem has gotten worse under the UN "Sustainable Communities" initiative (AKA "Agenda 21" and "Agenda 2030") which seeks to force rural-area residents to move into cities. So it's becoming harder to put up homes with government approval, but there are still ways to do it without them knowing about it.

Landlords putting unfair conditions in leases are a morally ambiguous situation. I see them as presumptively valid even though some of them would not exist if enough competition were allowed. Besides, landlords are getting screwed right now by the eviction moratorium which was just renewed.

Agreed. Where there is no private property there is no right to choose. Direct taxation is extortion and the right to rule by use of violence. It destroys individual liberty.

Your correct but may have missed one part of how they can claim taxes against your land. When the state sells bonds to raise money they are selling the right to your property to an investor. That is why they must collect or the investor will repossess. It identifies that the state has the right to indebt without your permission and although you may hold a deed (which entitles you to be taxed) the state actually holds the title allowing them to dispose of your property as they wish.
Even if the state is using the debt to finance government controlled communist indoctrination centers (schools) to get acquiescence it is still not acceptable that they have the right to indebt an individual without his consent. The fact that they get the majority of the slaves to say its okay still does not grant the state the right to enslave the one individual who did not agree.
Either we are sovereigns or the state is. If the state is sovereign then individuals are slaves.

If you are talking about private owned rentals there should never have been an eviction ban. If property owners could have evicted non-paying tenants 1.5 years earlier there would have been more demand from the populace for the right to return to work.
You are correct, it wasn't accidental. First the rental and mortgage market was loaded with non-paying customers then demand they have to pay back rent/mortgage payments and you have a flood of people needing housing and a 'Lord' ready to provide it under certain conditions. Classic statist chess move, create the problem then solve it with enslavement to guarantee access to the solution by the masses.

How did they "accidentally fail" to extend the COVID related eviction ban? That's not something they could do accidentally.
Can't they stop these private equity firms from buying houses?