Finacialization of the rental market

[plam]

Have ya'll ever lived in Montréal? Mom n pop landlords are pretty based. I think most people would prefer renting from some down-to-earth people who rent out half a duplex or a converted basement, rather than greedy capitalist slumlords like Vive Development or any of the new, similar local property developers/managers. Or Chinese or Saudi "investors" who can buy up entire city blocks and huge multi-residential towers.

Not all landlords are bad.

It sounds good, but mom n pop landlords can be as racist as the rest of them. Maybe they're slightly less good at extracting the maximum amount of money from tenants (but then again, Quebec also has much stricter laws about rent increases than other places).