[axlee]

In Paris, 3.5% of households own 50% of apartments on the rental market. Add institutional investors, you are probably looking at 70%+. I'm sure it is the same in every large city. In the whole country, 24% of people control 68% of the housing. Tell me again what needs to be built?

Source: https://www.nouvelobs.com/economie/20211126.OBS51459/3-5-des...

[endisneigh]

Irrelevant - more housing equals cheaper rent. Or put another way, do you think removing housing from the market makes rent more or less expensive?

[axlee]

The reason so many are forced to rent is because they cannot buy. At the end of the day, the population is mostly housed, but only a very small percentage benefit enormously from it because they own all the property.