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> About 33,000 of these were vacant, generally as a side effect of rent control laws. (I don’t honestly know if rent control is a net good or bad thing—I assum
by adrianmacneil 11y ago
> About 33,000 of these were vacant, generally as a side effect of rent control laws. (I don’t honestly know if rent control is a net good or bad thing—I assume more good than bad—but it certainly keeps units off the market.)
I will never understand why most Americans generally favor a tough-luck, fire-at-will attitude for employment, but are in favor of rent control and making eviction extremely difficult.
Coming from New Zealand, it's the other way around (it's extremely difficult to fire people, but there is no rent control and you can evict anyone with 90 days notice).
Not saying one or the other is necessarily better (I personally think somewhere in the middle for both approaches would be best), but strict eviction laws and rent control always seemed very un-American to me.
- gohrt 11y agoAmericans don't favor a tough-luck, fire-at-will attitude. Employers do (obviously) and employees don't. Same as with rentals.
- kelnos 11y agoEh, I wouldn't say that's universally true. As an employee, I've appreciated it when it's been (fairly) easy for the company to e.g. get rid of a peer that was dragging the team down. Several of the (smaller) companies I've worked for would not have survived if not for at-will employment. That's certainly helped me as an employee. Fortunately I haven't yet fallen on the "wrong" side of that equation; I imagine I might feel differently if I had... but then that's kinda irrelevant.