They raise the rent the max amount no matter what the tenant does. Every year, without fail. This will have no effect.

plausible deniability

That’s a job for the owners, not the renters

You can also make soap out of it, and you get some curious byproducts!

If housing as an investment has created a circumstance where young people can no longer afford homes then it’s in those young peoples best interest to sour the investment class.

Good. Disrupt the system. Until young people can purchase homes at similar rates to healthy countries then young people should escalate civil disobedience.

That may be true, but if the collective society decided to make housing unaffordable for the younger generation then they’ve decided to live with the inevitable shenanigans.

Counterpoint: if you rent, put everything down the drain you can. Stop taking your garbage out, just blend it and down the drain it goes. Everything goes down the drain. It’s like a magic hole that erases all of your sins!!

Only poor it down the drain if you rent! Never when you own!