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Yes, absolutely true. I wasn't really saying that not being able to buy a house is a good thing, but I did speak before thinking here.

There are things besides individual citizens and corporations that could, in theory, own and rent housing.

There are a lot of individuals who buy investment properties. I have friends who use this as their primary retirement vehicle and own a bunch of rental properties. They are just successful small-business owners and the properties are their private property, unrelated to the business. From last time I saw statistics on this, most rental units were still owned by small landlords.

Yes quite. But we were contemplating a future where small scale landlords were extinct.

Why would they go extinct though? This makes no sense.