All of the political representatives are landlords and they control supply through the legal system.

If it was this simple, poverty would not be an issue. You’re reducing a serious problem to the most simple slogan and it doesn’t help anyone.

Again, landlord is a customer service job. It's developers that build housing, not landlords. Developers have representation landlords don't. After my city passed new tenant laws the city lost ~15k units which increased rents. In response the city asked landlords how to improve the market then proceeded to do nothing with what they were told.

Basically everyone in the US even kind of wealthy or with any political power owns property. When you own property, the best move in your self interest is to not build more property. Many upper-middle-class peoples wealth is held entirely in their property.

There’s basically no political will anywhere to make it easier to build.

> the city lost ~15k units

They lost them?! Did the landlords pick their apartments up and move them to a new city? Or can they actually afford to hold out just to make a point?

If the sold them off as condos that's a good thing, we want more owners and less landlords.

More wealth in the hands of workers let's them fund their own housing needs and less wealth in the hands of landlords prevents them from obstructing housing development.

Mostly sold. The city considered the loss of housing availability to be a problem, which is why they did a study.