• Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com
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    18 hours ago

    Your original claim:

    Rent control does NOT control prices

    Your source:

    rent control appears to be very effective in achieving lower rents for families in controlled units

    You are very smart

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      15 hours ago

      You, on the other hand, are very dumb, because if you continue reading that very sentence and the one after it:

      …it also results in a number of undesired effects, including, among others, higher rents for uncontrolled units, lower mobility and reduced residential construction. These unintended effects counteract the desired effect, thus, diminishing the net benefit of rent control.

      This directly supports my claim.

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        9 hours ago

        Almost as if I had already given answer to those points in my previous comment about supply of housing (Buenos Aires example) or reduced construction (publicly driven construction) and you just refused to address those points! I explicitly said rent control is a band-aid and I gave solutions to literally every “problem” you brought up in the study such as higher rent for uncontrolled units (control them all), lower mobility (that’s a good thing meaning people get evicted less), and reduced residential construction (can be solved by public construction and has historically been solved like that).

        Half of your original claim was that it does nothing to solve rent prices, and your own source claims that you’re wrong on that, and you have the ballz to be here questioning my sourcing abilities lmao