Housing should never have been an asset to make piles of money on. That's how we're in this mess to begin with. We need a place to live. The first priority for

Housing should never have been an asset to make piles of money on. That's how we're in this mess to begin with. We need a place to live. The first priority for a house is to HOUSE someones. That should matter first and foremost. Investors should be forced to legally go fuck themselves. Same with flippers. Same with landlords. All of these just add extra cost and exfiltrate equity for some rich person to get richer. (I've lived with landlords for 40 years. My hatred is deep here. They've taken my money, built their equity, and charged 1.5x more than the housing would have cost. Damn straight I'm angry.) there's few cases where landlords of a form make sense - dense housing is needed in cities. Treat them like cooperatives, or do like utility companies where this service is guaranteed and here's the cost. But companies should not be able to unduely profit on the fact that people have to live.