That's a simplistic view that doesn't take into account property prices; not every landlord has owned property since the beginning of time, taking advantage of price increases.

Imagine a retired teacher who decides to rent out a garage apartment to supplement her pension - is she taking advantage of 'inflated rents' if the rent amount barely covers a proportional amount of the mortgage?

Additionally, landlords have to pay 'inflated property taxes', 'inflated utilities', and 'inflated garbage service' - these aren't discretionary costs for a property owner unless you advocate letting people stay in their apartments, but without landlord contributions to water, heat, cooling, garbage.

Certainly the fiscal stimulus and monetary stimulus as been inflating the housing and rental markets, there's no question whatsoever. Generally speaking the asset holding class has benefited wildly from all of this stimulus to the detriment of the working and middle class.

As far as explicit coercion I really doubt that and I doubt it would be even necessary. For many, many reasons politicians are heavily incentivized to just flood the system.