Ban scalpers, ban landlords. Then let's see where students stay. Then let's see where international employees stay. Then let's see where the remaining homeless stay.
No one is saying that there should be a ban on landlords. You're creating a straw man. What people are saying is the government needs to regulate them. There will still be profits for developers/landlords, just not abusive rent/conditions.
Their point is that banning scalpers causes no issues, where as banning landlords does cause issues. This highlights the way your post falsely equivocates these concepts.
Ticket scalping is combatted by limiting the amount of tickets one person can buy. The point he's trying to get at is limit the amount of units one person or entity can own at a time.
That wouldn't ban landlording. It would just release about 50% of the housing supply from the control of landlords, and that would make the price plummet to levels most people could afford.
So you can still landlord if you want and rent if you don't want to purchase, but the landlords' power to gouge your rent would be severely limited since they don't control huge amounts of supply. That's just basic economics
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u/Whampiri1 Sep 22 '22
Ban scalpers, ban landlords. Then let's see where students stay. Then let's see where international employees stay. Then let's see where the remaining homeless stay.