“We can see where some of the criticism has come from, rent is obviously increasing across the board, but not all landlords are the same, some don’t want to increase prices.”

But they did anyway, because they had to in order to stay landlords, clearly something they felt was much more important than how bad raising the rent made them feel. Here’s a fun question, who’s worse, a sociopath with no sense of empathy fucking people over for personal gain, or a fully empathetic person actively ignoring those impulses for the same reason?