A land value tax ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax ) is an economically interesting alternative to ren

A land value tax ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax ) is an economically interesting alternative to rent controls that doesn't seem to suffer from the same perverse incentives that rent controls sometimes do. FWIW, the housing market is pretty far from a free market, so well-implemented rent controls could be a good thing. I think like all government policies, really it comes down to implementation - I can imagine Germany doing a much better job than the USA here.