That doesn't make landlords the origin of high rents.
If people want less rent, it doesn't help to oppose landlords. All it does is reducing the number of participants which worsens the situation.
Renters can decide elections. Unionize and negotiate with the parties how many construction sites they will create. Then vote accordingly. Then rent will go down.
If you go for standardized housing with an abundance of construction sites then you also get your 5% rent within capitalism.
The problem is not the landlords but the voters and buyers. The landlords will offer 5% housing if the demand is there, together with construction sites.
How does that add up? If you pay 33% to Brad and Karen, where does the civil servants get the building sites, construction workers and materials for 5%, ignoring the extra space needed for the formerly homeless?
Do landlords have more than 500% profit margins?
Where is the advantage if you have to pay more taxes for it? If you look at public projects, do you think housing will stay within budget?
I would like to know the strategy that you like best.
That's what you don't like. How do you want to organize housing?
The working class has all the power, they just don't know it. But what good is all the power if it doesn't give you more? If everybody on this world would double their resource usage, global warming would just accelerate.
divide et impera
Everybody knows. You don't have to fight. Talk about the important topics.
Don't they have a shortage of bananas?
Guns don't kill people.
What would change if every company would be democratic?
Landlords are not parasites. If you have enough competition then profits will go down until it's barely rewarding to manage property, which somebody has to do.
Housing just costs so much becsuse of zoning laws and lack of public transport.
Unless you pull of a revolution, competing landlords are key if you want rentable housing.
But you want to abolish the idea of rent. What will happen? People have to own their housing units. This requires credit. People who don't get credit now, where will they live?
Of course you can establish Socialism. But you don't believe that voters can change politics.
What's the most possible change?
I think making the housing market competitive is possible. But it's still difficult because there needs to be a decision about how to handle collapsing housing prices and the defaulting on most mortgages.