Shofercia wrote:Here's the issue that all of you who are suggesting that landlords are immoral have to deal with: in the US system, there can only be three outcomes: you own the home, the bank owns the home, or the landlord owns the home.
You say that as if the US system is an unchangeable constant which all Americans just have to accept and work with. That is, of course, not true - systems can be changed.
Society can avoid having to deal with immoral landlords by having the State own the housing, for instance. While eventual change is not helpful in resolving a crisis like this one, it will help in ensuring that such things do not happen again. It can even be done gradually - charge a hefty tax on property to be nationalised and use the revenue from that tax to buy that property.