A lot of comments in this thread about corporate buy-to-let seem reasonable, but only under the nihilistic assumption that prices cannot fall and home ownership

A lot of comments in this thread about corporate buy-to-let seem reasonable, but only under the nihilistic assumption that prices cannot fall and home ownership must be perennially out of reach for the median earner. What about instead of shifting from private parasitic landlords to corporate parasitic landlords, we just let people buy the homes they live in (by enacting one of many possible policies to limit the profitability of BTL and thus reduce competition for homebuyers)? It just doesn't seem to make any sense to try and apply free market principles to housing. There's absolutely no benefit.