[twblalock]

Please identify this "huge class of people" who own more housing than they can possibly live in.

I don't believe they exist.

If you are referring to corporate owners of apartment buildings, that's one thing. But to say there is a huge class of people who are landlords is just unrealistic. Very few people own more than one home, and even fewer people own more than two.

[actually_a_dog]

You don't believe individual landlords exist? They have a whole, entire subreddit, r/Landlord. Voilà, quod erat demonstrandum.

To wit:

> Of the approximately 50 million rental housing units in the United States, around 41% of the rental units are owned by mom and pop landlords, also known as individual investor landlords. That means approximately 20.5 million units are overseen by mom and pop landlords.

https://getflex.com/blog/landlord-statistics/

Also, from the same site, the average landlord has 3 properties. That means there are more than 6 million individual landlords in the US. I'm not going to nitpick whether that's "huge" or not; the point is proven.

[twblalock]

> Also, from the same site, the average landlord has 3 properties. That means there are more than 6 million individual landlords in the US.

In a population of 330 million. That's ~1.8% of the population. Hardly a "huge class".

[actually_a_dog]

I'm not going to debate whether enough people to fill multiple major cities is a "huge" class or not. Go nitpick someone else if that's your only point.