>Truly sordid tropes about rent caps and freezes are trotted out again and again, as if simply reciting them makes them axioms: they're not. Neither does insis

>Truly sordid tropes about rent caps and freezes are trotted out again and again, as if simply reciting them makes them axioms: they're not. Neither does insisting that these are sordid tropes make them so. In a vacuum, freezing rent disincentivizes the creation of new housing. You can negate this effect by subsidizing new housing, but that doesn't mean that the effect is fake news. >Our elected leadership are captive to stupid market force arguments. I wish. If that were the case, we'd replace property taxes with a land value tax, and it would be much easier for both the government and private developers to build new housing.