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Your options are rather extreme and unsuitable, by your own admission.

The most direct solution is to prohibit landlordism and private renting. This prevents housing from being treated as an investment and keeps it within the housing pool.

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That sounds pretty close to the third option except you want to limit expropriation to renting. How's that going to work? You think all the landlords will sell to the city? For how much? Can people buy houses from the city to live in them? Where does additional housing come from considering that it's currently not enough? How does the city determine prices and how does it prioritize who gets which place?

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