alt Hacker NewsYes, the natural state of every resident is to live in their own home. To be clear by home I don't mean "single family detached house on a suburban street", I mean a place to live with water, electricity, and a roof.
Landlords provide no 'service'; they are merely an existence tax.
The market already does not build dense multifamily; what is there to halt?
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The real reason single family housing ownership is the only real option is that society effectively pays people to own; appreciation out weighs all costs of ownership so in the end it’s free or even an investment.
But if it was truly a free market and supply met demand owning housing would be a depreciating asset and renting would be cheaper.
Land ownership is a cultural construct. Their is no natural state.
You can't fathom that someone might not want an ownership stake in the property they happen to reside in, that there could possibly be a downside to that.
There is absolutely no way I would have wanted to be tied down to buying a house when I was young.
> The market already does not build dense multifamily; what is there to halt?
Landlords have existed since forever, and the market was until recently very happy to build enough supply.
That it's suddenly gone downhill implies a problem well beyond "landlords".