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Rent control makes people become NIMBYs.
by SamReidHughes 12y ago
Rent control makes people become NIMBYs.
- logical42 12y agoI concur. And it seems to me that the feedback mechanism is destroying SF.
- simoncion 12y agoI am in a rent controlled apartment. I have been in this apartment for 4.5 years. I full-throatedly support new, dense residential construction sufficient to meet SF's current and future housing demands. This will continue to be my position for the forseeable future. For those folks who are concerned about new construction destroying their rent-controlled units, Sangiacomo and his tenants worked out a really good plan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9209304 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9209304