Shutting Landlords Down for the Collective Good
19th January 2026
As I’ve pondered the linkage between housing affordability (meaning the ability of the general public to afford housing) and affordable housing (meaning subsidized housing for people too poor to afford any housing), I’ve sometimes wondered if there isn’t a deliberate effort to make housing unaffordable in order to force more people to live in government-owned or subsidized housing. Clearly, making housing expensive through growth boundaries has the support of those who want to densify cities. But does it also have the support of socialists who want to end private homeownership?