Looks like this happened a few days ago, but this is the first time I’ve heard of this.
The new ordinance defines a co-living group as a group of at least four unrelated adults living together in a dwelling unit.
The landlords and real estate interests are mad that the poors are gaming the system!
But wait, it gets worse!
The ordinance stated that if one adult is unrelated to another adult, then the entire group will be classified as unrelated.
Whenever capitalists and their bootlickers talk about the unique innovation that happens under capitalism, they are referring to the countless inventive ways in which enablers of the system are deliberately cruel and sadistic toward working and poor people.
The City Council’s vote came despite a presentation from a Johnson County organization where a housing study showed that the average home price in the county rose 37% from 2017-2021, climbing from $324,393 to $443,700. The study also showed that wages did not rise at that same rate.
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everyones talking about roommates, which makes sense, but i’m more fucking jokerfied by the idea that cohabitting outside of wedlock has been banned again, but this time by capital :agony-shivering:
It’s largely targeted at immigrant workers in boarding houses and to a lesser extent college kids. No one will say shit about a cohabitating couple. It’s more likely NIMBYism over things like “too much traffic/not enough parking” or “problem houses with too much noise and coming and going all hours of the day”. Things like that.
The writer is like “cohabitation has become popular” … no, MF , it’s literally a necessity for survival! The sheer malice of the average american is just staggering at times, like I can’t believe it!
But also, why shouldn’t it be popular? Cohabitation is cool and good.
Signed, someone who’s lived with over 30 people who are not family members
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
The Land Reform Movement, also known by the Chinese abbreviation Tǔgǎi (土改), was a campaign by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Mao Zedong during the late phase of the Chinese Civil War and the early People’s Republic of China.[1] The campaign involved the mass killing of landlords by tenants and land redistribution to the peasantry.[2] The estimated number of casualties of the movement ranges from hundreds of thousands to millions.[3][4][5] In terms of the CCP’s evaluation, Zhou Enlai estimated 830,000 had been killed and Mao Zedong estimated as many as 2 to 3 million were killed.[6]
Those who were killed were targeted on the basis of their social class rather than their ethnicity; the neologism classicide is used to describe the killings.[7] Class-motivated mass murder continued almost throughout the 30 years of social and economic transformation in Maoist China, and by the end of reforms, the landlord class had been largely eliminated from Mainland China or had fled to Taiwan.[8] By 1953, land reform in most parts of mainland China was completed except in Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai, and Sichuan. From 1953 onwards, the CCP began to implement collective ownership of expropriated land through the creation of “Agricultural Production Cooperatives”, transferring property rights from the former landlord class to the Chinese state.
Don’t mind me just quoting a random Wikipedia page
All jokes aside our kulaks will 10000% be the small business tyrants and car dealership owners.
I think there will he a large class of “poor” homeowners. They will have some equity in their homes but also lots of debt’ as well as children and extended family that are completely proletarianized. I kind of think of them in a similar place as small holding peasants in 1917. My family is in this place now where my parents lost the business in 08 and now we are basically breaking even on the house with all four of us working. We have some security, but one health crisis or job loss and we are in trouble. People like us have something that resembles property, but they don’t really extract labor value. These people can go either way in a rev depending on how scared they are of losing the little they have versus hopeful of the gains they and their family might make on the other side of it.
We now have the technology to rewrite human history. We did nuke the kulaks.
Maybe by that point but something like half the adult population still owns a home
