History is path dependent. Not every country has the same literacy rates, civic participation, income inequality, intergenerational wealth, social inertia, and so on.

What is rational and common place in one country is radical progressivism in another.

You can do what is ideal, or you can do what works. You can deny a reality of systemic barriers to affordable housing, or accept that they are real and must be tackled one at a time.

In an ideal world, yes, there would be no landlords. In the real world, property, laws, the economy, and people are so deeply intertwined that to propose the elimination of landlords is about as facetious as eliminating bankers because of exploitation in banking.

Based on human nature over thousands of years the prevailing history shows us that "we" do not want to administer what we build. Governments worldwide forever have struggled with Capex vs Opex.

For that reason, I do not want government getting into the habit of owning shit. Look at Russia or anywhere in the eastern block for the infrastructure that is literally crumbling. It's all because we do not do Opex. We never have and nothing tells me we ever will. Working in corporate I can tell you it's a struggle there too. Human nature does not prioritize Opex.

So the question is, how would this be any different?

I personally believe the government should be building more housing not the market because the market wants money and some things like starter homes do not make money. That does not mean I want the government owning and administering homes. Build them, sell them in the market and let the people who own it decide what to do.

Do not let non-citizens or businesses in any way own anything.

Government should be putting in place the rules and enforcing them but that's it. The problem is they don't want to enforce shit.

There's the other issue. People are lazy AF and what's worse is most people refuse to acknowledge it which means most people are hypocrisy too lol

Ok? That's not all housing which to me is nationalizing. All countries have some concept of co-op or subsidized housing which is owned and administered by the government. It can and does exist in parallel. Should the government be doing more of it? I would argue yes.