> The average renter doesn't understand supply and demand? You don't understand that making operating rentals harder and more expensive will cause rents to go

> The average renter doesn't understand supply and demand? You don't understand that making operating rentals harder and more expensive will cause rents to go up. So yes, there is a very large group of people who don't understand supply and demand and you are part of that group. > Hell, I'd like to hear a great debate on the ethics of renting-without-equity, period. If you force people to receive $500 in equity for every moment they rent, then rents will go up by $500 / month. This is bad for the people who cannot afford to pay that $500, or for people who would rather invest that $500 in the stock market or whatever. If you wave the regulatory wand and demand that X must happen, then what you are really demanding is that everyone must pay for X, whether or not they want to. Not that everybody will magically get X for free.