Corporations should not be able to own housing.

No single family homes, or condos at all. And no more than 2 apartment buildings. Combined, across all businesses related to them, both up and down subsidiary lines. Can't just create separate corps to handle each development, they already do that to limit liability somewhat.

Empty apartments increase taxes when uninhabited for extended periods. Longer they go unrented, the higher the taxes are, no limit. As soon as they are rented out the taxes start to drop back to standard levels. If any apartment meets the criteria for those higher tax rates, other tax incentives the company might normally qualify for are null until back to normal. So if they want to get a tax incentive for something, they need to ensure they actually fill their apartments.

Direct effect would very quickly be lowered rent prices to fill otherwise outrageously priced empty apartments.

We need a revolution. Tax billionaires out of existence. We need to go back to the 70% pre Reagan tax rate

Yes, pitch forks and torches would be great but nothing ever happens. I see no action.

"Mom and pop landlord" is an oxymoron.

As long as people like these parasites breathe we will never own anything.

So, these numbers are a bit old ...

https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/landlord-statistics

... basically, while OP is very likely correct specifically in NYC regarding apartments...

Broadly, at a national level?

The vast majority of single family rentals are provided by a landlord with less than 5 five rental properties.

IE, boomers trying to become rich by becoming petite landlords....perhaps roughly comparable to pre-Soviet kulaks.

This same pattern is borne out by more recent median age of a home seller / home purchaser: its 59 or 60. The 'median age of a home seller/buyer'... yeah it pretty much just tracks the average age of a Boomer, in the last 30 years.

As you can see, to the point that now, now the median age of a US first time home buyer is actually 40, if you extend this graph to current data, now, Q2 2026.

The boomers all went into the 90s and 00s and then 10s getting an increasing media diet of real estate is the path to wealth!... we started getting a bunch of TV shows about home renovations and house flipping... and woo.boy do the boomers love their boob tubes.

I have no doubt that in more literally concentrated areas, with even higher price floors, yeah, its more dominated by larger to hyperhuge organizations.

But on net?

While private equity moving in and building a development in an area, or starting to purchase a bunch of on market/for sale homes in a region... while things like that are often the sort of local reset for 'comps', seen as signals to boomer kulaks of well shit, I should do the same thing for myself!...

... The boomers are the ones that actually do the mass of the work of directly making home prices go up, as well as voting up anything that will benefit existing homeowners, and voting down anything that will add cost to existing homeowners.

They collectively decided that making their homes go up in value was their ticket to a secure retirement.

The problem is that if every boomer does this, it literally guarantees economic, demographic, and social collapse... new family formation becomes difficult to impossible, social welfare systems collapse, the broad concept of tactic agreement that the government is de facto legitimate erodes rapidly.

Any boomer that complains about or is worried about white birth rates tanking even harder than non white birth rates, that believes in 'great replacement theory'?

They're idiots. They are the cause of the effect they are observing.

Remember that shooting at Blackstone's headquarters? They tried to blame the motive on football somehow but the shooter targeted the CEO of Blackstone's real estate group, killing her along with a few others.

Even if there were small independent landlords all over the place, fuck them anyway.

Property should not be an investment opportunity.

Owning 10 houses you don't live in while charging other people to live there makes you more than a landlord.

It makes you a PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT

Parasites deserve to be removed.

This is the same con they pull with farming. They use the idea of the small family farmer to pass legislation that mainly helps massive agribusiness.

They will always keep one or two family farms to trot out the next time they need to legalize dumping fertilizer runoff directly into the aquifer

Housing is a human right

There is a technical term for mom&pop landlords. Parasites.

They, and other companies like them, are the ones buying up all of the extra real estate in the US, and then price fixing everyone's rent. This is how our housing is so expensive, manufactured low supply and price fixing through software.

I know someone who had a meeting with some Blackstone bankers. This may come as a shock but apparently they were totally arrogant assholes

Sidebar, being a landlord sounds like an awful way to earn a living.

also, there's such a thing as one group ruining it for everyone else

if someone keeps shitting all over the walls in the public bathroom at a convenience store, and the owners choose to close public access, we don't blame them for it. we blame the people whose ruined it for the rest of us.