Honestly can't see that happening; there's an enormous profit to be made in having most of the population rent. People will pay every penny they have for food, healthcare and somewhere to sleep. Letting ordinary people own houses instead of harvesting from them for their entire lives is just not profitable.

The people could get together and make laws to protect themselves, and there's some whispering of this with recent attempts to form unions and so on, but against the political might of the rich, the people don't look to have much of a chance.

I dont see private ownership of apartment buildings happening anytime soon.

I worry we might see the opposite. Someone will be convinced the "solution" to the housing crisis is to just remove citizen ownership of housing to begin with.

I dearly hope so. Housing is for people, not corporations. I would like to see the introduction of zoning laws that accomplish this.

This is actually why Andrew Jackson was dead set on killing the National Bank.

As soon as you have groups pooling money to snatch up land to rent, you sort of destroy one of the big draws of the American dream, because in the end, the market will adjust to the whims of the conglomerates instead of the lone citizen.

This is exactly the outcome he was trying to avoid.