Landlords exist solely to make money off an essential need while providing no value to society. Economists fuckin named the practice of expanding costs without expanding goods/services as “rent seeking behavior” so even shitty, capitalist-brained supporters agree that rent-seeking is bad, landlords are worthless and everyone knows it. The only people that deny this are landlords and people that think they'll become landlords and can't wait to start shoving the boot down.