Your entire comment can be dismissed by saying “you’re mistaking the existence of landlords with the existence of rent”
The problem is not the existence of flats to rent, the problem is that if said flats are rented for profit (as happens in the vast majority of occasions due to the free money they give) every cent of profit is extracted from someone else’s work.
Rent should exist, it should just be public and cost no more than the cost of construction + upkeep.
Your entire comment can be dismissed by saying “you’re mistaking the existence of landlords with the existence of rent”
The problem is not the existence of flats to rent, the problem is that if said flats are rented for profit (as happens in the vast majority of occasions due to the free money they give) every cent of profit is extracted from someone else’s work.
Rent should exist, it should just be public and cost no more than the cost of construction + upkeep.