A billionaire landlord is attempting to censor the media, to cover up his crimes

https://novaramedia.com/2026/01/16/this-billionaire-landlord-bullied-journalists-into-deleting-negative-coverage-of-him/

#landlordism #censorship #oligarchy

The Landlord’s Game

" Monopoly’s roots trace back to The Landlord’s Game (1903), created by Elizabeth Magie to critique monopolistic land ownership.

It featured two sets of rules – one emphasising wealth accumulation, the other wealth distribution. The aim was to demonstrate how different policy levers, taxing income versus taxing land, affect economic outcomes of players.

The two sets of rules in the Landlord’s Game demonstrate how wealth is either concentrated in the hands of landlords (taxing income) or is more fairly distributed across society (taxing land).

Monopoly reflects the world’s economic systems, embodying both the dream of wealth and the realities of financial inequality. "
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https://theconversation.com/90-years-of-monopoly-how-the-new-craze-morphed-from-socialist-critique-to-capitalist-dream-252738

Landlordism, not supply, is causing the housing crisis >>
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/cities/2024/07/13/landlordism-the-lucky-country
#monopoly #regulation #housing #LandOwnership #landlordism #rentierisation #PayToPlay #culture #housing #HousingCrisis

The housing shortage and wealth accumulation in Australia.
Houses/ 'homes' as commercial enterprises

" In Australia, the origin of the idea that housing is to be valued primarily as a commodity for producing private wealth is colonisation. It is part of our creation story. " Former Victorian Supreme Court justice Kevin Bell.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-02/need-for-housing-inspires-artist/105939626

Plan to apply commercial council rates for short-stay rentals
"These properties operate as a commercial enterprise...They generate income and place higher demand on infrastructure and social services, similar to any hotel or motel."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-02/mount-gambier-council-short-stay-rates-airbnb-changes/105943950
#housing #homes #IndigenousDisplacement #unhoused #inequality #insecurity #Airbnb #shortterm #accommodation #speculation #traffic #TourismImpacts #MultipleProperties #BellingenShire #commercialisation #suburbia #BAU #MeInc #SettlerSociety #narrative #landlordism #rentierisation

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/proposal-rent-control-removal-ontario-9.6952992
#Ontario #Canada #fordgovernment #rental #rentcontrol #indefiniteleases #landlordism #DougFord #housing #tenantrights #ExploitativeMethods #legalabuse #legislation

https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1006645/province-introducing-legislation-to-build-homes-and-infrastructure-faster

"I was never sold on Starmer’s Labour delivering sunlit uplands. He doesn’t have a theory of change, or policies commensurate with the challenges he often acknowledges. But even I was shocked when it was revealed that Rushanara Ali, the now former Minister for Homelessness, had evicted four tenants from her East London property only to re-list it for an additional £700 a month. Besides that, the agents acting on her behalf initially tried to charge the evictees nearly £2,000 to redecorate, and an additional sum for professional cleaning. Under the Tenant Fees Act, passed under the May government, neither was permissible.

Ali resigned shortly after the i newspaper broke the story. That was inevitable given the Renters Rights’ Bill, which Ali herself claimed would “tackle the root cause of homelessness”, included the minor detail of prohibiting what she had done. Ali could, of course, have put the property on the market with the tenants remaining in situ. That is, after all, what normally happens.

The house in question is presently listed at £894,000, and is one of three Ali owns across the capital (one is jointly held with a family member). Other Labour MPs who are also landlords include Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, who lets her former South London home for £6,000 a month, and David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary. Two ideological stalwarts of the party’s Labour First faction, Jas Atwhal and Gurinder Josan, allegedly own more than 20 properties between them. As of the last election, three of the leading five landlords in parliament are Labour MPs.

All this stands in contrast to most of Labour party history."

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2025/08/labour-has-become-the-party-of-landlordism

#UK #Labour #LabourParty #Housing #Rentism #Rents #LandLordism #Starmer #RadicalCentrism

HOME UNSETTLED

Settlers are detached from the land and mostly mistake "Little boxes made of ticky tacky" as 'home.' But now
"Climate change is forcing us to rethink our sense of ‘home’ – and what it means to lose it."

Val Plumwood ... "argues that, under capitalism, the idea of personal belonging to a particular place or dwelling is often framed as being more important than many other vital attachments to place, such as connection to land. She uses the term “shadow places” to describe the ecosystems we exclude and exploit – including our forests and waterways – even though they are fundamental to our existence. These places provide essential labour, nourishment and the conditions we need to survive and flourish. For Plumwood, an expanded sense of “home” would encompass the broader ecological context we exist within."

" Indigenous Australian law scholar Irene Watson explains colonisers were already alienated from a sense of connection to land when they came to “Australia”. This disconnection led them to plunder the land, treating it as a commodity rather than a living, complex ecosystem that nurtures and is nurtured by First Nations peoples."
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https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-forcing-us-to-rethink-our-sense-of-home-and-what-it-means-to-lose-it-247234

Malvina Reynolds - Little boxes on the hillside, Full Version with Lyrics >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUoXtddNPAM
#Country #IndigenousPeoples #care #displacement #land #privatisation #commodification #LandSpeculation #landlordism #rentierisation #SettlerSociety #suburbia #housing #sprawl #homeplace #ClimateBreakdown #values #australia #NativeForests #plunder #ecosystems #biodiversity #ExtinctionCrisis #FossilFuels #extractivism #loss #home

This story shows why the UK needs more social housing and tighter regulation of private rented accommodation.

I'm glad Labour is ending no-fault evictions, but the long term goal must be to reshape housing policy so that individuals and families are no longer forced into dependency on private landlords.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8ykm23lrko

#UKPolitics #Housing #Landlordism #London #HousingCrisis #NoFaultEvictions

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#communism #socialism #capitalism #landlords #landlordism #LandlordsareParasites #thesimpsons #maozedongthought