Coming "Housing Affordability Crisis"- effect on landlords?

[Adrienne Finch]

Hi everyone,

With the U.S. in obvious housing shortage for the next decade at least, the narrative seems to be that this would be positive for real estate investors. Every podcast episode is talking about how the government would fix this in a way that puts more money into landlord pockets - rent subsidies, directly paying landlords for housing, etc. 

While hopefully this will happen, I'm wondering how we seem so confident that things would go in this direction instead of the opposite. Isn't there just as much chance that the policy-level fix for this might lead to rent control, rent ceilings, or other possibilities that might hurt private landlords and take away the free market forces? 

Would love your opinion! Thanks