If you can afford an additional $200&#x2F;mo, then that&#x27;s great for you, but there are a lot of people out there who can&#x27;t.<p>Housing is a necessity, and while, in our current system, we allow the free market to provide that, it runs counter to the goals of a stable and healthy society to allow landlords to force people out of their homes arbitrarily.<p>Like health care and education, there are significant long-term and short-term benefits to treating housing as more than just another contractual transaction (for example, tenants who develop a sense of ownership of their place and treat it with respect and take care of it, vs. &#x27;who cares we&#x27;ll be out in a year anyway&#x27;), or building a sense of community in an area (a psychological necessity, and one which has tangible benefits like reduced crime, which in turn improves property values).