[fabianhjr]

By reducing instances of private equity firms buying all housing stock en masse and "maximizing profit" by squeezing every last cent their tenants could give.

Example: https://www.propublica.org/article/when-private-equity-becom...

Also Adam Smith has a lot of rants against rent seeking behavior and landlords if you want to go with that "communist" writing.

> The rent of land, therefore, considered as the price paid for the use of the land, is naturally a monopoly price. It is not at all proportioned to what the landlord may have laid out upon the improvement of the land, or to what he can afford to take; but to what the farmer can afford to give

Funnily enough, check how far back the 1/3 income for rent comes from and the context on which it is mentioned:

> The rent of an estate above ground commonly amounts to what is supposed to be a third of the gross produce; and it is generally a rent certain and independent of the occasional variations in the crop. [..] This rent “is seldom less than a fourth ... of the whole produce.”

[astrange]

Private equity firms are nothing compared to the power of average homeowners using land appreciation as their retirement plan.

A simple rule is that nothing people blame on corporations is ever caused by corporations. People and governments are legitimately more powerful than corporations! And they often use that for evil.

[mannerheim]

> Private equity-backed firms in the top 35 cumulatively held roughly a million apartments last year, the analysis showed.

In a country of 330 million people.

3.6% of apartment units are owned by private equity.

https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2022/06/letters-to-congress...