I'll tell you exactly what I want. I want to keep living in the house with the doorframe that has my children's heights marked into it. I want to plant a tree on the land that I have tended for a decade now (while living month to month not knowing if we would be moved on at any moment). I want to watch that tree grow to maturity. I want to have my grandkids for sleepovers in the bedrooms that I put their parents to sleep at night in. I want to feel invested in the fertility of the soil that I live on. I want to put a damn nail in the wall and paint my place the color I like. I want to feel connected to the land, and not like some shameful vagrant who has begged for a little shelter to lay down her bags.
Also, I have owned a house. Don't give me that, I know what's involved. And even with the worst tenants you have an appreciating asset that appreciates regardless of the state of the walls. I don't cry for you. I cry for the kids going to sleep in their cars tonight because humans have less rights than birds on the planet they were born on.
I'll tell you exactly what I want. I want to keep living in the house with the doorframe that has my children's heights marked into it. I want to plant a tree on the land that I have tended for a decade now (while living month to month not knowing if we would be moved on at any moment). I want to watch that tree grow to maturity. I want to have my grandkids for sleepovers in the bedrooms that I put their parents to sleep at night in. I want to feel invested in the fertility of the soil that I live on. I want to put a damn nail in the wall and paint my place the color I like. I want to feel connected to the land, and not like some shameful vagrant who has begged for a little shelter to lay down her bags.
Also, I have owned a house. Don't give me that, I know what's involved. And even with the worst tenants you have an appreciating asset that appreciates regardless of the state of the walls. I don't cry for you. I cry for the kids going to sleep in their cars tonight because humans have less rights than birds on the planet they were born on.