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> I think rent controls... are supporting better lives for working poor Rent controls make their situation worse, not better. [1][2][3][4][5] [1] https://www.
by antidesitter 8y ago
> I think rent controls... are supporting better lives for working poor
Rent controls make their situation worse, not better. [1][2][3][4][5]
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/business/economy/rent-control-explained.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/business/economy/rent-con...
[2] https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2015/08/30/do-rent-controls-work https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2015/08/30/...
[3] https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentControl.html https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentControl.html
[4] https://fee.org/articles/rent-control-advocates-need-a-lesson-in-economics/ https://fee.org/articles/rent-control-advocates-need-a-lesso...
[5] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-01-18/yup-rent-control-does-more-harm-than-good https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-01-18/yup-re...
- soared 8y agoI'm struggling to understand the comment above yours, but affordable housing is entirely different than rent control. Denver requires a percentage of every apartment building over a set number of units have some affordable-housing units. This lets lower income people live throughout the city, and doesn't attempt to solve the problem of high rents for non-poor people.