Housing Tire-Fire

​A few weeks ago I saw something like:

"Landlords play an important part in the housing market, just like scalpers play an important part of the ticket sales market."

And it hasn't left my head.

Feels like there's more truth there than most monied people or landlords would ever want to admit.

With housing and rental prices being the way they are...with giant corporate entities creating portfolios of houses by a larger percentage year over year lately...with overseas entities swooping up swaths of housing and condos simply as a way to "park money" somewhere...

...how do we not have a better "family-oriented" solution to this yet?
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Doesn't this sound like the kind of problem that is screaming for bi-partisan support? Or is this just another hole we aren't allowed to fix in our society because people are going to scream about "freedom" and "free market" to hell-and-back, no matter how big the tire fire gets?