The root of this problem is very clearly absentee landlords. If the (oftentimes long term) occupants of these buildings owned them, then all these problems wou

The root of this problem is very clearly absentee landlords. If the (oftentimes long term) occupants of these buildings owned them, then all these problems would significantly go away. When you can no longer take out an artificially cheap loan to buy property, just to rent it out, housing actually becomes affordable again.