> Where do new houses come from, if occupants aren't paying their share of the labor and material cost that went into them?

Landlords are out to make a profit, so renters are obviously already "paying their share" of the cost of their unit in rent. If they weren't, their landlord would be broke.

> Why single out my landlord to lose everything for choosing a different asset class than I did?

Call it "creative destruction." Like the buggy-whip makers of old, maybe he made a bad choice about what business to get into?