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Elderly landlady leaves most of her properties to tenants (www.dutchnews.nl)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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An 87-year-old woman from Lemiers in Limburg who owned substantial real estate in nearby Vaals has left most of it to her tenants in her will.

According to the Telegraaf, Anneliese Houppermans, who earned her money from a successful fruit and vegetable business, owned several houses in the community. She never married or had children, and her ties to her family had faded over the years.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This to a certain extent extent is what we should be doing with housing. We've got a huge problem with elderly Care and who's going to take care of them and where the money is coming from. And we've got a huge problem with rent going out of control going into people's pockets that aren't going to use the money for anything. Why aren't rents just going to pay towards people's elderly Care I don't understand.

We should use housing to lift up those who came before us and can't carry as much as their own anymore as well as enriching those who come into replace them.

We pay for your retirement. We get the house. Then those after us pay for our retirement. The cycle continues.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Every generation should finance their own retirements. Fluctuating population will lead to few having to finance many. This is the state of affairs in Germany, where old people live in both huge places and are paid pensions which will be unreachable for the younger generation.

I live in a village with many single family houses from the 70s and 80s. The people living here are old and are either not capable or willing to invest in their homes Understandable in my opinion. Why invest if you know you'll die in 10 years...

What I wished would happen that older people would downsize. It is common for older people to live in their 7 room house they build for their entire family of 5. Children all grown up and in different cities, house not maintained and only partially heated.

Feels like pragmatism dies before the rest. Just move to a smaller apartment and give the house meant for families back to families ...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Work all your life

Able to afford stuff

Retire, want to enjoy your stuff

Random ass guy: your stuff is too big, you should sell it because I'm jealous and I want it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

They didn't say "sell," they said "give."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Everyone should have a guaranteed basic standard of living with dignity, then you wouldn't need to worry so much about retirement.

Individualism is the wrong direction to go.

Oh but we can't afford that! No, not if we let a small handful of our population buy yachts for their yachts and fly around the globe in their private jets, and no not if we let individual companies hoard more money than entire nations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Thank you for your insight. I didnt think hard enough. With declining birth rates this equation wouldn't work without a secondary funding source to make sure it floated through the rough times.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (3 children)

ALAB except this lady.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean she still stole people's income for like. However many years. This deed of hers was good, but I'm not sure it makes up for (potentially) a lifetime of taking working class wages.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Still struggling with English, I see?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Oh, hey it's you. Huh. Always run into the same people defending Landlords. No point hashing it out since we already have. Hope you're having a good day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

ALAB except this lady.

Apologies, but this is the first time I’ve seen the term ALAB and I couldn’t find it anywhere on the interwebs.

Could you explain what this means?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure you are familiar with ACAB. The L stands for "landlords" here

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry, my mind just didn’t click at that moment

[+] [email protected] -7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

basically, Lemmy doesn't think people should be allowed to rent. You either own a house or live in a hotel. No inbetween.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it's more like "people shouldn't be allowed to charge others exorbitant prices for a basic necessity of life"

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

that would be the correct, nuanced approach, yes. But that isn't how things are on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I keep fluctuating between leaving lemmy and coming back due to its love for extreme stances, its the same type of vibe/reason I never really touched Twitter or Tumblr, but unfortunately reddit is now... reddit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Linux, vegans, anti-renting, autists (literally, not a slur); it's a good mix of the worst of Reddit, without the racism & nazis of Reddit. The biggest longterm difference is that almost no-one on Lemmy has any skills or experience. Flying Squid is 47 and only discovered that coupons existed on the internet last month. There aren't knowledge experts on topics like Reddit has.

Honestly, Reddit has been looking better and better. Overall, conversations are more wholesome than on Lemmy. Which is weird as fuck.

I mean, don't get me wrong: r/conservative and plenty of places are cesspools of filth, but you can get banned from reasonable subs by posting or joining garbage subs. It's done a lot to make things less shit.

CEO is still garbage, mods are mixed, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

On the autist point, is a bit of a side tangent, but I hate that they've decided I cant fucking use my childhood diagnosis anymore because the guy who termed it was a Nazi, even though before this decision the name Asperger NEVER made me think of the Nazi, and only made me think of Autism. The DSM retired that diagnosis retired that diagnosis anyways in favour of making Autism a spectrum, so even if the asshats don't shit on me for continuing to use a term that was a useful descriptor for me since childhood, its still going to fade over time.

I wouldnt be surprised if conversations on reddit have gotten better if half the people who irritated me on Lemmy used to be redditors since the modpocalypse. I'm still having trouble feeling like I'm rewarding spez for his actions if I end up back in reddit though.

And finally on the conservative point, at least Conservatives are honest about hating gay people and minorities. The Tankies here screetch the loudest about slurs and protecting minorities and lgbtq people, but they support regimes that dont blink twice while crushing those same populations

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

re: Tankies: I'm 90% sure that's part of the inexperienced and immature crowd; they - like the vegans and the anti-renting crowd - all have super tunnel vision. Zero nuance or discussion. They fixate on one point to the exclusion of any sanity (which is heavily a spectrum symptom).

HOWEVER, I should add in my rant, there is one other odd / good thing about Lemmy: significantly higher ratio of non-Americans. More language/ communication barriers I've encountered from it, and they are still mostly the aforementioned groups - but hey, not 99% Americans here.

re: Asperger's: heh, I get you. Honestly, imo: own it. Like the LGBT crowd taking the word "gay" back, I see no problem with "Aspys" reclaiming Aspergers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I hope you're right with the Tankies, and yeah, I'm not really going to let anyone take an identity/descriptor from me with my own autism, even if the people attempting to do so are also on the spectrum. I never noticed the ratio difference of Americans to Non Americans, although I guess as a Canadian I'm not sure where I fall on that ratio xD

I dunno if I have much further to add in this conversation, I mostly just wanted to respond to show I've read and appreciated your own input!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, it is known that only death redeems landlords.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Only death CAN redeem them, I think this lady got it, can’t say the same for the rest

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