Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced…

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the…

— John Stuart Mill

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

— Richard Cobden

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

— John Stuart Mill

Elites play the role today that landlords played under feudalism. They levy interest and financial fees that are like a tax, to support what…

— Michael Hudson

For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.

— Nydia Velazquez

“No despotism, no privileged monopolies, no police societies, no divine rights of the emirs or feudal landlords or shady priests and sheikhs. All had…

— Rami Ollaik

“Evictions should be the absolute last resort for landlords and not the first-choice, nuclear option. Evicting people is mostly an unnecessary exercise in power-tripping…

— Stewart Stafford

“During the USA COVID-19 lock down, some landlords were rendered homeless because they could not legally evict the tenants from their own home.”

— Steven Magee

If there is 'right to buy' for council tenants and housing association properties, then why shouldn't that apply to all tenants? Some landlords are…

— Jeremy Corbyn

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they…

— Adam Smith

In a society rigged in favour of landlords over tenants, to rent privately is to be deprived of security.

— Owen Jones

“Landlords in New York are generally the scum of the earth. They're beneficiaries of the worst kind of nepotism, eating off the good business…

— Eddie Huang

Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings.

— Matthew Desmond

Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.

— Matthew Desmond

You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are…

— Matthew Desmond