How to combat the growing hatred for Landlords?

[Nathan Gesner]

Below is just one example of the many websites and forums popping up around the country, depicting landlords as greedy, evil monsters. What's most interesting is the growing number of people that believe housing is a right and it is immoral for anyone to have more than one house.

How would you combat this type of attitude?

Bored Panda: This Online Group Is Dedicated To Shaming Greedy And Delusional Landlords, And Here Are Their 40 Best Posts.

[Nathan Gesner]

Originally posted by @Account Closed:

Maybe because people are starting to understand that there really is something fundamentally immoral and wrong with a system that allows a small group of people who either have tons of extra money or are able to get approved for multiple mortgages to hoard extra property then charge people for a basic human necessity, sticking them in a position of essentially modern peasant who will then almost certainly never be able to save up enough to buy their own home and build equity and enjoy the stability homeownership brings s it stands now, millions of people are stuck in a cycle of paying someone else’s bills and never getting to enjoy any of the benefits of owning a home. Banks make the requirements for a home loan so stringent at times that many people can’t get approved but they are paying more in rent than they would be with a mortgage. All to pay for someone else to have extra homes they don’t need. Or worse. To literally just make the owner even richer for the ones who are. Shelter is a basic human need. It should be an investment for someone to not have to work. 
when people are seeing apartment complexes sending cruel and tone deaf eviction notices and not repairing issues during a global pandemic and young kids in their 20s whose rich parents give them money all the time buying apartment building and rental houses to kick the people out and raise the rents, while evicting people who are a day late and being entitled little d bags about it then yeah. Normal polite Society generally is going to have some issues with that. 

I grew up on government cheese, powdered milk, and hand-me-downs. My dad died when I was six and my mom raised four kids on her own. Christmas presents included fun things like 12-packs of socks and a stocking full of nuts and oranges. My aunt and uncle still live in the trailer I was raised in, a regular mansion of 800 sq.ft. I served in the military for 21 years because I couldn't afford college. Then I started a business and worked 70-80 hours a week building it into something profitable without any help from government or anyone else. I didn't take on debt, bought only things I could afford, sacrificed and saved. Then I bought an investment property. I continued saving and investing.

Somehow I'm privileged? Somehow I owe free housing to people that grew up better than me, have more education, and work half as many hours?

Tell me, are you willing to plant a crop, nurture it, harvest it, and then give it away for free?

Are you willing to work 40+ hours a week to save up money, purchase a property, and then allow others to live in your investment for free?

Water is a more basic need than shelter or food. Are you willing to collect water, purify it, and then give it to people for free? Because I know an entire continent full of people that would appreciate your selfless sacrifice!