• Calavera@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    In Portugal and I assume many other countries, if you have a bad tenant, like someone who does not pay, it often takes more than a year in court so you can evict them(sometimes multiple years) , also you can have your house “destroyed” and will be hard to get your money back, so many people who own second homes just don’t put them in the rental market.

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      1 month ago

      I reckon that is a problem. A fair solution would be to popularize housing occupation again, that way the risk of not renting the houses I much higher for landlords.

      People are very worried about squatters, in my opinion there’s way too little squatters. Where I live there’s not enough housing, yet you walk around and see entire streets of buildings in which nobody lives.