Britain already figured this out, until Thatcher blew the whole thing up.
The government buys up a ton of houses and apartments, rents them out to people at reasonable rates, thus piercing the bubble of rent prices and keeping everything reasonable for everyone even from private landlords. We don’t have to have a big loophole ridden argument about what is and isn’t allowed to do, because any private landlord can do whatever they want - the market that they hold so dear just all of a sudden becomes such that they can’t send their tenants to work all day and then keep most of the money they made in exchange for literally nothing.
When they enacted it in Britain, a lot of landlords eventually just sold their properties to the govt anyway, because it became more profitable for them to invest the money in some business enterprise than to just sit on their asses and collect the pitifully un-parasitic rents that they were able to charge.
Literally everyone wins except the parasites. Which means it’s unlikely to happen on a large scale in America… except that it doesn’t need to happen on a large scale. Literally any city or state could do the same and all of a sudden could become the one place in the country where rent is reasonable and Bob’s your uncle welcome to getting reelected for life.
GET ON IT POLITICIANS YOU GUYS HAVE BOUGHT ENOUGH TV COMMERCIALS TIME TO DO SOMETHING NEW
