> Then everyone is forced to buy a house to live in, no matter what their situation or desires are.

Great! Now we're talking real solutions that can actually help people :)

> Of course we can stop collusion. What are you even talking about?

Besides laws and regulation (which already exists and clearly isn't enough), what is your suggested solution for stopping collusion?

Price fixing is/was already illegal in the US (if I understand the Sherman Act correctly), yet the largest landlords in the US was found to engage in price-fixing and artificially raising rents. https://www.propublica.org/article/justice-department-sues-l...