Actually, there is a 6.5 million home shortage in the places that people actually live (https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/08/homes/housing-shortage/index....).
That shortage has nothing to do with landlords, though, and everything to do with shitty zoning and with constructing new homes being incredibly slow and burdensome in most big US cities.
It does say when you include multifamily, the gap drops to 2.3 million.
> The United States is not building enough homes to account for the number of people setting up their own households.
This refers to houses.
Actually, there is a 6.5 million home shortage in the places that people actually live (https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/08/homes/housing-shortage/index....).
That shortage has nothing to do with landlords, though, and everything to do with shitty zoning and with constructing new homes being incredibly slow and burdensome in most big US cities.