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That does not follow - they are still fulfilling housing demand by renting it and more capital means more ability to build houses. The whole premise appears te
by Nasrudith 6y ago
That does not follow - they are still fulfilling housing demand by renting it and more capital means more ability to build houses.
The whole premise appears telological - landlords are intrinsically bad ergo everything they do will make the housing situation worse.
- berdario 6y agoYou're mixing up home builders with landlords. The latter aren't fulfilling housing demand: they are capturing it by outcompeting people who cannot afford property prices (prices driven up by buy-to-let demand). You say that landlords are intrinsically bad: lots of people agree with you on that... I stop short of it, since there's a minority of people for which renting is a preferable solution (at least temporarily) and nationalising the whole housing market is infeasible.