If you don't pay taxes, men with guns come to take your stuff. If you don't pay rent, the landlord tells the people you paid taxes to, to come kick you out. Since the men with guns don't want to take kick you out since you are paying them, they put backchannel pressure on the landlords to not kick you out, leaving the landlords with the only recourse of actually having to maintain their properties.

If you don't pay taxes, men with guns come to take your stuff. If you don't pay rent the landlord tells the people you paid taxes to, to come kick you out. Since the men with guns don't want to take kick you out since you are paying them, they put backchannel pressure on the landlords to not kick you out, leaving the landlords with the only recourse of actually having to maintain their properties.