I wonder what our many landlord haters think about this
I like to think of my view of landlords the same way that I view corporations. Sure, they have a right to exist in a capitalist economy, and they are necessary in order to provide the working classes with the things they need to live (i.e. a home / a job / stuff to buy etc.)
But just like how corporations also need to be regulated to ensure that they don't exploit every last resource available to them - or exploit the leverage they possess in providing those same basic needs to the working class - in order to maximize their income; so do landlords.
No, this does not mean that landlords or the owners of big corporations should have their tenants/workers overthrow them or murder them. 
In online leftwing anglo spaces "death to landlords" IS a pretty popular slogan. But, yeah, more sane people presumably don't mean that when they criticize landlords.
