> The sooner we collectively decide that housing shouldn't be a market, the better.
How do you or we decide it's not a market?
If people are paying money for housing, it's a market. And it's not just money, but the largest lifetime expense by an order of magnitude and more.
> I'm also of the much more radical opinion that we should protect tenants over landlords in nearly every case
That's already the case, at least in many places (I know not all). If you take it too far the result is no landlords, thus no rentals. Perhaps that's ok if everyone wants to buy, but if there is anyone who wants to rent, it's useful to have rentals.
How do you or we decide it's not a market?
If people are paying money for housing, it's a market. And it's not just money, but the largest lifetime expense by an order of magnitude and more.
> I'm also of the much more radical opinion that we should protect tenants over landlords in nearly every case
That's already the case, at least in many places (I know not all). If you take it too far the result is no landlords, thus no rentals. Perhaps that's ok if everyone wants to buy, but if there is anyone who wants to rent, it's useful to have rentals.