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What If the Housing Crisis Was Not Created by Landlords?

By Brian Campbell

Jul 27, 2026
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What if we have spent years blaming the wrong people?

What if the affordable-housing crisis was created less by landlords than by government policies that increased demand, restricted supply, expanded public spending, and then blamed property owners for the predictable result?

For years, living in California, I heard the same solutions: blame landlords, p…

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