> So basically, landlords collude with local governments all over US (I don't know how it is in other countries) to prevent the real estate rents/prices going d

> So basically, landlords collude with local governments all over US (I don't know how it is in other countries) to prevent the real estate rents/prices going down by making politicians restrict building more housing wider, and building more housing higher. At least in the Bay Area, it's the NIMBY homeowners that block new construction, not a conspiracy of real estate dealers.