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I understand the general distaste towards landlords.. but I mean realistically they are necessary, not everyok can or wants to own a house at every time point in life. I am also a landlord and haven't upped the rent during any of the interest hikes, increases in our land tax etc whilst we have the same tenant. May look at reevaluating if/when they move out. Home ownership needs to be a right first, before it's an investment.
Even if not everyone can or wants to own a house, there's no good reason for these houses being owned by corpos or individuals.
Housing is as much basic infrastructure/human needs as is health care, education, electricity, water supply, sewage system, internet access and should be in the hands of the public sector - alas, it most often isn't and that alone should tell you enough.
I'm not saying there shouldn't be corpos allowed to provide service based on the public infrastructure, but the infrastrucure itself would be public in a fair and sane world.
If you can't kick out leeches from abusing public infrastrucure, well, you end up in the world we live in.
Now you can call me communist or think about why the system we have is designed to help the rich getting richer.
This is no natural state we live in. It's an abomomination.
You want housing to be publically managed? Would you be willing to pay the significant tax that would be required to wholly maintain houses, water, sewer, electricity and Internet and landlord infrastructure?
You've been deluded into thinking that public/government managed equals inefficient and expensive.
If anything public managed (or at least owned) housing would be cheaper, because of greed having been removed from the equation.
Allowing people and corps to stash basic services away is what's expensive for the population because the leeches will always require the maximum fee the market allows them to invoice.