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Public housing or housing vouchers are one thing. Price controls are another. Price controls are absolutely, without a single empirical doubt, the worst policy
by saosebastiao 14y ago
Public housing or housing vouchers are one thing. Price controls are another. Price controls are absolutely, without a single empirical doubt, the worst policy you could enact. You might as well start torching your housing supply...the effects are the same.
- dllthomas 14y agoHyperbolic, but accurate when you've accounted for that.
- Evbn 14y agoVouchers without controls drive up prices, becoming a transfer from govt to landlords. Public owned housing is the answer.
- saosebastiao 14y agoVouchers with artificial limitations on new development drive up prices, becoming a transfer from govt to landlords Eliminating artificial limitations on new development is the answer.