Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical?

Doesn't anyone feel uneasy about it, that more and more people are looking at real estate as a financial tool, not a basic human right to have a roof over one's head?

Aren't startups like this just adding oil to the fire which is the real estate market?

I do not understand how will someone expect for future generations to achieve their own personal freedom and living inside their own four walls.

[1] - https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/backed-by-forerunner-and-bezos-back-arrived-a-startup-that-lets-you-buy-into-single-family-rentals-for-as-little-as-100/

Imagine if we did the same thing with, say, water: privatized it and then "democratized" ownership of it.

It's easy to get retail investors to buy things at inflated, speculative prices, so the price of water would go up. People would say, "Why are so many people dying due to lack of access to water?" And we would blame these startups, laws would be passed, and we would fix it.

Unfortunately the necessity of housing is not as direct and clear, and we have a long history of denying housing to people who are unlucky, sick, or the children of such people.

https://alabamapolicy.org/research/understanding-the-differe...