Hacker News Reader

If you want to fuck with landlords all you have to do is repeal your local zoning codes. Institutional money is pouring in because American cities have erected ridiculous barriers to entry in the housing market, making appreciation of home prices state policy. Repeal those barriers and make landlords poor again.

View on HN

That actually messes with single family home owners more. I would love to provide more housing and make more money.

I don't care. Landlords aren't "providing housing" they are just money conduits. It is demonstrably the labor of their tenants which provides the housing, and the pendulum needs to swing back in the tenants' favor for a while.

I think they are. They are purchasing an asset that others may not be able to afford and making it available. Additionally, they're funding construction of more housing wherever possible. Are tenants just money conduits for the corporations they work for?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com