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If you want to ensure people are never priced out of housing, it's possible to guarantee this. You just build a home for every person, and beggars can't be cho

If you want to ensure people are never priced out of housing, it's possible to guarantee this. You just build a home for every person, and beggars can't be choosers in terms of location, quality of accommodations, roommates, or size. Homelessness will still exist if you do this, as people will simply refuse to live in such places, even if you force them to USSR style, but it's about the only workable approach I'm aware of. Mass scale social housing. If housing isn't connected to price to begin with, you can hardly be priced out of it now can you? Rent controlling privately owned real estate does not work and has never worked. It literally just doesn't do what is claimed. It mostly repeatedly crops up generally because of how politics is structured means long term residents have a lot of clout to propose policies that benefit themselves while spinning BS about how rent control ends homelessness. If you want the right to live in a specific area with specific amenities, well you can't always get what you want. The reality of resource scarcity and power differentials always crops up somewhere.

FullyFunctional 4y ago
We don't speak of down-votes here, but I'm fascinated by why this was down voted. Do people find anything false in the above? Do NH people actual believe in rent control? I personally know people who kept (or keeps?) a rent controlled apartment they don't need or barely use, because it's so cheap to keep it. Seems like a good example of unintended consequences. There's a lot of vilifying of landlords here. I was a landlord for a while because I wasn't ready to move. That got me my two first and only legal cases (one settled, one won but never collected $10k owed because the con artist skipped country). The insane level of stress got me out of that and I was lucky because only months later, all landlords got left holding the bag with the covid non-eviction mandate which meant renters could just stop paying rent. I'll never ever rent anything out again.
- tomcam 4y ago
  Just spitballing here, but I have a sneaking suspicion that no one favoring rent control has ever dealt with renters.

FullyFunctional 4y ago

We don't speak of down-votes here, but I'm fascinated by why this was down voted. Do people find anything false in the above? Do NH people actual believe in rent control? I personally know people who kept (or keeps?) a rent controlled apartment they don't need or barely use, because it's so cheap to keep it. Seems like a good example of unintended consequences. There's a lot of vilifying of landlords here. I was a landlord for a while because I wasn't ready to move. That got me my two first and only legal cases (one settled, one won but never collected $10k owed because the con artist skipped country). The insane level of stress got me out of that and I was lucky because only months later, all landlords got left holding the bag with the covid non-eviction mandate which meant renters could just stop paying rent. I'll never ever rent anything out again.

tomcam 4y ago
Just spitballing here, but I have a sneaking suspicion that no one favoring rent control has ever dealt with renters.