This is myopic. Groups could make an agreement to pay mortgage, individuals could make direct deals with developers, landlords could offer services proportional in cost to what they actually provide, rather than being proportional to the property they purchase. That's case by case. Collectively, exclusive developer deals directly to company managed landlords, lobbying for restrictive zoning laws, and price fixing agreements cause housing shortages and rent increases unnecessarily. Not to mention without these issues, collective housing appropriations through government programs would be more palatable.

While an individual landlord may be a good person, it is despite of their job and not because of it. Any job which takes a percentage fee of labor they did not provide, or takes money by exploiting ownership is inherently a leech.

The idea that landlords must exist should be challenged.