The Democrats are going to make the housing issue worse by driving landlords out of business. Sure, that means the government might take over your apartment building but, as people will quickly learn, there's no bigger slumlord than the government.

This writer has been in the government-owned housing in her city, and every building was run down, dirty, and dysfunctional. And the rents were still increased regularly.

That's because it costs money to make emergency repairs, maintain buildings, provide appliances, and upgrade things like paint or carpeting. Democrats don't understand this, because they don't spend their own money on anything.

Now Elizabeth Warren is getting schooled in why landlords raise rent.

It's a basic issue of supply and demand. If there are few apartments but lots of renters, rents will go up. Making it hard to build housing or allowing millions of illegal aliens into our nation reduces the supply and increases the demand. Providing Section 8 housing at inflated rates also jacks up the prices. This writer once rented an apartment that was $700 a month. The elderly owner sold to a management company that jacked the rent up to $1,100 a month and then started accepting Section 8 vouchers.

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She literally has no idea how the economy works.

They all assume landlords are rich. Many are middle-class people using properties for passive income and investments. They're trying to build a better life for themselves and their children.

Government-owned apartments are slums. Then again, putting all of us in slums and poverty is the goal of Democrats.

The "educated Left" is one of the stupidest groups of people on the planet.

"She admits it herself. There are not enough homes. Then she skips the only question that matters. Why? Zoning that bans apartments, permits that take years, rent controls that punish building. Every one a government policy she supports. The shortage is her movement's own construction project. And the greed theory fails arithmetic. If landlords raise rents just because they can, why couldn't they a decade ago? Greed is a constant. Supply is the variable. The landlord provides the home, carries the mortgage, fixes the refrigerator. Remove him and her constituent is not liberated. She is homeless," the user wrote.

All of this.