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Home ownership is not ideal for everyone.
Obviously, all humans deserve to have a home. Not all of us want to own a house. I would rather have the flexibility to move around, and much prefer to leave repairs and maintenance in the hands of the person I'm renting from.
I get that it's not fair for rent money to passively make someone else wealthy, while they get to have the equity of a house. I'm not suggesting we keep that system. Housing (at least a portion of it) should be available as a public good.
Fuck yea! Give me an airship! Let me float the fuck away, and when someone asks "what country are you from" or "who's side are you on", I can just say none.
Renting wasn't that big a problem until Airbnb and the like became popular. A good landlord is hard to find nowadays but it wasn't always this dire
There's nothing inherently wrong with being a landlord, it's the greed and the systems in place that encourage said greed.
People in lefty spaces like lemmy do not typically agree with that.