I think I’m reverting a bit into some misanthropic and nihilistic tendencies, but at this point I feel like I don’t even care about bad things happening to cis people. Everything feels worse for trans people, and I spend a lot of time helping other trans people with problems caused by shitty cis people. I genuinely think 90% of cis breeders hate their trans kids in some way and actively make their lives harder, even the lib ‘accepting’ ones. I’m like 60% of the way to thinking ‘yeah I’m gonna be a terrible slumlord for cis people so I can make trans people live better lives, I’ll house them for free by taking money from the cis by being an exploitative landlord’. I have the possibility of actually doing this. I doubt we’re having a revolution, so like… isn’t this an equalizer? There’s also the fact that trans people basically have no familial support, being a landlord exploiting cis people would mean we are forcing society to actually support those without it. I could see alternative arguments, like maybe if you have access to a lot of housing you could just make cheap housing for trans people and that would foster a whole community rather than having a lot of depressed cis people slaving away for a handful of homeless trans people, idk. You’d probably have to deal with anti-discrimination laws with that scheme, whereas giving housing away for free to trans people can be contractless.

Obviously I’m a communist through and through, but why should I care about others outside the community when many cis people clearly aren’t in the position materially to even begin to think about communism, let alone trans inclusive communism? Talking to them won’t work either when they see you as a freak from the start.

  • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.mlOP
    42·
    11 days ago

    I mean I feel the obvious thing is to mention rent goes to a trans charity on the rental agreement or something. If anyone comments they’re trans do a sneaky reduced rate or make it free.

    • ConcreteHalloween [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      11 days ago

      I’m pretty sure even that would be illegal. Also even if you pull it off I think you’re setting up a bad situation if you’re having trans and cis people housing in the same building but you’re openly having the trans people pay less and providing a better service while also dicking over the cis tenants.

      Most people aren’t going to care one way or another what the rental agreement says, they just want to access housing for as cheap as possible.

      • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.mlOP
        42·
        11 days ago

        Could have the company name mention it’s trans e.g Transgender Housing Authority to see if anyone says anything. Frankly I don’t care if something is illegal I care about if it interferes with what I’m doing

        • ConcreteHalloween [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          15·
          11 days ago

          Frankly I don’t care if something is illegal I care about if it interferes with what I’m doing

          Housing discrimination laws are pretty harsh (for good reason, cuz you know segregation and everything), if any of your tenants found out about this there’s be lawyers cuing up to help them sue you.

          • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.mlOP
            41·
            11 days ago

            There’s a dozen ways around this I feel because of racists, like I could donate it to a charity I also own and say that it’s a trans benefit charity and then have it “pay” me back the reduced rate each month. This is how nearly every church functions, the church is controlled by the pastor who has a tax free house paid for by the church on the same lot as the church.

            • ConcreteHalloween [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
              14·
              11 days ago

              Honestly if you have the capital to become a slumlord there’s probably safer and easier ethically dubious ways to raise money for trans charities. Do a crypto rug pull or open a liquor store or something.

              • doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml
                15·
                11 days ago

                Do a crypto rug pull or open a liquor store or something.

                Come to my catholic-themed (satirically) transgender wine shop. It’s called Trans-Substantiation.

              • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.mlOP
                31·
                11 days ago

                I’m more concerned about after the original purchase, the goal would be to rapidly expand the operation to essentially solve trans homelessness in the city I’m in.

                • ConcreteHalloween [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  11·
                  11 days ago

                  If that’s you’re plan you’re going to run into the same problem everyone else who’s tried to do “rainbow capitalism” in the past has, to stay successful in the market economy you’re going to have to ruthlessly compete with others which will require you to constantly degrade your morals. You will get to the point that just exploiting your cis tenants won’t be enough. Eventually you’re going to end up in a position were you have to evict a trans person who raise rent on an NB tenant. You may solve homelessness but you’ll just end up as the local LGBTQ community slumlord.

              • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.mlOP
                31·
                11 days ago

                Do a crypto rug pull or open a liquor store or something.

                I mean this is probably a good idea, we’ve also been considering buying commercial space (maybe a mixed commercial residential space idk if that even exists here) to fund it. Exploiting a jet ski store does go down smoother. I was hoping for a more numerical analysis from someone on what the best course to do is but very few people are handling trans commune shit rn we’re all like astronauts

                Basically I’m at the point where we can expand things but we can’t take out a ton of loans, it needs to be paid down somehow beyond what we make currently.