>It's not their house. It certainly is their home. I would prefer those be the same person as often as possible to align incentives.
If you take something you're obliged to pay for without paying for it, it isn't "yours."
>Tenants, like many contract participants, have legal rights that cannot be waived (see also minimum wage.) They also have contractual rights due to the contract.
Minimum wage is another thing that crushes the poor, as do eviction protections. Both serve to make jobs/housing (respectively) more difficult for the poor to acquire via regulatory barriers.
>Certainly, withholding rent from a breaching landlord is appropriate while the breach is resolved.
Conversely, withholding housing from a breaching tenant is appropriate.
>Unless the landlord lives there, the landlord's home is unrelated to the property.
In the US, "Home" can simply mean a house [1]. My apologies if you're using a different dialect of English and I misunderstood; I was using home as it's used in one common interpretation of the word in English in my country.
'Home' and 'house' are perhaps synonymous when preceded by the indefinite article. In the abstract, a house and a home can be considered the same thing. A house is, at least in principle, a home for somebody. But you can't call a rental property the landlord's home, since the key characteristic of somebody's home is that it's the place they live.
Nearly every landlord I have interacted with when renting single family housing has referred to the house he is renting as a 'home' even when no one was living in it. I understand local dialects may be differ.
If you take something you're obliged to pay for without paying for it, it isn't "yours."
>Tenants, like many contract participants, have legal rights that cannot be waived (see also minimum wage.) They also have contractual rights due to the contract.
Minimum wage is another thing that crushes the poor, as do eviction protections. Both serve to make jobs/housing (respectively) more difficult for the poor to acquire via regulatory barriers.
>Certainly, withholding rent from a breaching landlord is appropriate while the breach is resolved.
Conversely, withholding housing from a breaching tenant is appropriate.
>Unless the landlord lives there, the landlord's home is unrelated to the property.
In the US, "Home" can simply mean a house [1]. My apologies if you're using a different dialect of English and I misunderstood; I was using home as it's used in one common interpretation of the word in English in my country.
[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home : refer to 1b