The only thing actually stopping the poor from owning a house is them being poor.
I'm on a minimum wage job myself with full-time hours and it was very easy for me to get on the property ladder. Is it a big massive property I always dreamed of? no. But it's mine, it's nice, it's well-kept, it's comfortable and it will be paid off fully in less than ten years.
The stuff in the OP is just the free market. It doesn't sound nice, granted, but it's life. If you try to stop the free market just so things like that happen less and you want to feel better about things then you'll suffer in other ways from compressing the free market. It's a classic example of pro's and con's. Embrace it, stop moaning about it.
I would have to ignore a lot of stuff to think this is free market,,,
Like what?
What you outlined in the OP is the perfect example of the free market at work (albeit the bad side of it)
There's nothing illegal about people with money buying up property, creating a rental market, dictating the prices and creating a small monopoly.
You might think it's immoral and you might be correct but is it right that folk aren't allowed to own more than one property or rent property out? if you want to outlaw that think it through for a minute and think of what that will involve and consequences of it that will ripple through the free market and then the economy.
What you're moaning about is typical socialist speak in that it sounds great, it sounds like it's the right thing to do in theory but in practice it couldn't be more wrong.
Go ahead, downvote me by "disagreeing" again or whatever but it's still true.