If a person enters a relationship for housing with somebody (landlord) who is in every way incentivized to not support your thriving with that housing, then foundationally you’re in a situation where a core function of life (shelter) cannot be considered stable.

If you were to use Paul Graham’s “default alive or default dead” metaphor for homelessness, that means every single person who isn’t a landlord is “default homeless”

In this case, every persons stability lives at the whim of a landlord - and to be clear, you can put all of the eviction laws in place that you want, but if a landlord does not want you on the property even if they cant immediately evict you without recourse (a matter of money and political power at that point) they can and will make your life worse than if you weren’t even in that property.

The fact that it’s illegal to be alive without paying somebody else to live is insanity