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It's not really surprising that places with the most onerous "tenants rights" regimes have the biggest problems with housing inventory. I wish the people enact
by gotoeleven 2y ago
It's not really surprising that places with the most onerous "tenants rights" regimes have the biggest problems with housing inventory. I wish the people enacting these laws understood that for every squatter or rent deadbeat you prevent a landlord from evicting, there's a hundred potential landlords that just say no thanks I'll just leave my property empty.
https://www.pacificresearch.org/time-to-ask-why-so-many-san-francisco-homes-are-vacant/ https://www.pacificresearch.org/time-to-ask-why-so-many-san-...
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- baggy_trough 2y agoIs it that they don't understand, or that they actively seek that result?
- roenxi 2y agoI'd guess that it is actually the other way around than you might expect. First there was an affordability problem so everyone was pushed into rentals, then the renters were a big enough political block to soft-seize the houses from the landlords. So I'd anticipate places with tenants rights laws to associate with huge amounts of housing inventory while the incentives really catch up. Then the tenants get pushed to move somewhere else and the laws go away as the renting bloc loses numbers.