Are Landlords Really That Bad?

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Over the last few years, landlords have been in the news a lot. Thanks to covid, we've seen countless rent strikes, the formation of tenants' unions, and waves of evictions. Let's take a few minutes to look at what role landlords play in modern society, and investigate whether or not they're really as bad as everyone says.

Are Landlords Really That Bad? – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:

Rent increase of 18% over last 5 years, 150% over last 35
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2...

Average landlord income vs. average renter income
https://www.rent.com/research/rent-st...

Minimum wage workers can’t afford housing anywhere in the US
https://nlihc.org/oor

45% of landlords in the UK have no outstanding mortgages
https://web.archive.org/web/202006162...

Millenials have 35% less wealth, 70% can’t afford housing
https://www.apartmentlist.com/researc...
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/23/op...

3.6 million official evictions each year
https://evictionlab.org/

3.5 million people, 1.4 million children experience homelessness
https://www.nationalhomeless.org/publ...

For-profit firms have 45% of the housing supply (21.7 million units) in the US
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...

Wall street landlords are even worse than individual landlords
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/20/y...
http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2018/...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/ma...

Blackrock
https://www.blackrock.com/us/individu...
https://jacobin.com/2022/03/index-fun...

Blackwater
https://www.thenation.com/article/arc...
https://www.thenation.com/article/arc... ​https://www.theguardian.com/world/200...

Wall Street lobbies against rent control
https://theintercept.com/2018/10/12/p...

Wall Street bought up foreclosed homes after crashing the economy
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/20/y...

All those Adam Smith quotes
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

Only 6.7% of Americans are landlords
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...

238 federal lawmakers are landlords
https://www.businessinsider.com/congr...
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016...

Vienna’s social housing covers 62% of the population
   • How Socialists Solved The Housing Crisis  

Millions of homes in America are vacant
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/re...

Good vids about landlords
   • Landlords Are Bad Everybody  
   • I was wrong about Landlords  
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Good take about “good landlords”
http://www.gmhousingaction.com/good-l...

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