ID: A Sophie Labelle 4 panel comic featuring Stephie in different poses, saying:

Landlords do not provide housing.

They buy and Hold more space than they need for themselves.

Then, they create a false scarcity and profit off of it.

What they’re doing is literally the opposite of providing housing.

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    2 hours ago

    Landlords do not create the false scarcity.

    Government does, by constantly suppressing new construction.

    Government does this via:

    • Density zoning, which caps the number of units in places the market would support much more
    • Making construction investment uncertain, by slowing permitting processes to a crawl