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.
It is wholly impossible to be both a slumlord and a communist.
That's not to say that communists need to be wearing a barrel with suspenders and drink water out of a drain, but being a landlord is a uniquely scummy thing to do. Most of the people who end up in shitty housing do so because they're desperate and have no other choice, they are most likely going to be queer people kicked out of their homes, the disabled, the neurodivergent, people of color, undocumented migrants, and so on. You're not going to get a conga line of cis white male chuds to skim off the top of. Society is setup specifically so they're the least likely to end up there.
This isn't to scold you, I don't know what's in your heart. You're right that you're going through a bout of misanthropy, and this way lies ruin. If you're fine with exploiting the people named above as long as they're cis then you're cutting yourself off from solidarity. I would recommend becoming an ancap at that point. Because why pay taxes to provide public services to cis people, or pay union dues to a union that mostly benefits cis people, and so on. And if the conditions are going to be indeed scummy and exploitative as you'd imagine them then if your tenants rent-strike then every leftist will be on the side of the tenants. Because again, by becoming a landlord you cut yourself off from solidarity.
This is the ultimate trick that capitalism plays on you. To convince you that a better world isn't coming any time soon so in the meantime you might as well become the exploiter rather than the exploited. But capitalism can only perpetuate itself through exploiters, however you might try to rationalise it. I'm not saying you need to forgive cisciety, fuck it, but solidarity is how we build a better world.
Also, you missed your timing, all the housing was bought up by Blackrock. You might want to get a finance degree and defraud people's savings accounts instead.
edit: also there are communities / communes / compounds that are owned wholly by trans people for the benefit of trans people, what you're looking for might already exist, and importantly they're fighting the good fight on top of it all
It's me, I do that. But the reality is this is wholly inadequate, you need more money so you can expand to meet the sheer mass of trans people going homeless right now. Donations don't cut it you need much more to keep it going
You have to do what you think is right. I hope you find a way to make it work. Hexbear, however, is not the best place to ask for tips about how to do landlordism. It's the website where "kill all landlords" is a pretty common sentiment.
Not to be "that guy" but this really isn't true. The amount of housing owned by Blackrock is pretty small and concentrated in a few areas with a grossly over valued housing market, same with investment firms in general. Most housing in the US is owned by regular ass landlords, boomers looking to cash out when they retire, and rental companies.