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Here's a crazy idea: regulate residential real estate. This is sickening. It should not be that the poorest of society are further pressed because some graduat

Here's a crazy idea: regulate residential real estate. This is sickening. It should not be that the poorest of society are further pressed because some graduate of the "mobile home university" wants to jack up rents for his class project. We do NOT need this free market. It is exploitation backed by the threat of state violence.

sampo 11y ago
> We do NOT need this free market. The article says it is difficult to establish new trailer parks, as the authorities will not give permissions. So I don't think it is a free market. It is artificially created scarcity.
crzwdjk 11y ago
It's already regulated, mostly at the city/town level, and every city zoning board gets lots of comments that "we do NOT need more trailer parks/apartment buildings/'those people' in our town". Supply needs to be deregulated, though it might not be a bad idea to crack down on some of the excesses of slumlords as well.