>>108767434>That's exactly what's happening right now? What did you mean by this?Imagine you live with your parents in bumfuck, Idaho. But not wanting to die between potatoes and pigs, you try to get a job elsewhere. A company in NYC offers you a job that you'd really like. But you need housing. Housing costs a million dollars. You do not have a million dollars. You cannot get housing, so you cannot take the job. This is bad, in some ways for everyone.
Landlords fill this gap. Without them you get either company housing (bad for workers) or no temporary housing (economically horribly inefficient).