For the first time in over 3 years property owners will be able to raise rents after city council decision. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News on Nov. 5, 2023.
Rent control leads to fewer places to rent, this driving up rent for places not rent controlled, and adding insane competition to places that are.
Disposing of rent control entirely, in a phased transition, would be ideal.
“Next to bombing, rent control seems in many cases to be the most efficient technique so far known for destroying cities."[4] So noted the socialist economist Assar Lindbeck in 1977. In a 2012 survey of leading economists, a mere 2% thought that price controls on rent improved the availability and quality of affordable housing.[5] Then why hasn’t rent control destroyed the cities where it has been implemented? Because of the easing of these price controls since their adoption in the mid-20th century.[6] That is, until now.
Also, something that makes me sad: extremely rare L from Buttigieg
“Rent control is one of many tools that local jurisdictions can use to promote access to affordable housing.”[2]
— Pete Buttigieg
This is one of those weird pieces of economic theory that all the neoclassical people act like is settled science despite a long history of good faith studies and publications casting serious doubt.
Most rightwing publications nowdays parrot largely debunked austrian school nonsense as if other countries housing policies don’t exist, or as if the ability of landlords to profit is more important than keeping people in their homes.
The point was to make a quick joke and introduce some levity.
Schools of economic theory no longer exist, in practice - though, post-covid, some new divisions are beginning to arise. Where they aren’t arising is in the efficacy of rent control.
Rent control criticisms aren’t “Austrian school” - they’re just economic orthodoxy. We have tons of data, we’ve seen the impacts.
In my experience, people mostly argue their support rent control emotionally. They assume that wanting to do away with rent control means lack of empathy for the poor or not wanting the government to assist the poor in being housed, which is the exact opposite of how critics of rent control actually feel.
I want people housed and fed. I support initiatives that work, like just giving poor people cash. Our disagreement is in how effective different programs are, which is why I don’t understand the hostility.
I responded to the hostility with a light joke, in an effort to defuse it. You don’t need to agree with me, and you’re free to hold a counter-opinion, but calling me a “piss drinker” is absurd, so you get some absurdity as a response.
“Instead of criticizing this cake made of 98.8% deadly poison and 1.2% cake ingredients, why don’t you just eat around the poison or eat it and just choose not to ingest it?”
^^ This is what you sound like to a sane person… If you were curious?
Not like LA doesn’t already have a huge unhoused population, so City Hall decides to add to the problem.
Bunch of dumbfucks.
Rent control leads to fewer places to rent, this driving up rent for places not rent controlled, and adding insane competition to places that are.
Disposing of rent control entirely, in a phased transition, would be ideal.
Also, something that makes me sad: extremely rare L from Buttigieg
Poor guy.
https://manhattan.institute/article/issues-2020-rent-control-does-not-make-housing-more-affordable
Debunked. https://youtu.be/K9ovIqH5mms?si=j85j4OgYHIrBVc1H
Repeatedly. https://youtu.be/1JkZwAwc-GQ?si=fp8vPmUudtH1s9TD
Inb4 neoliberal pissdrinking “economists” start claiming a lack of theoretical foundation for opposing the interests of the rent seeking class.
Read Smith, you charlatans.
https://www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/chapter-xi-of-the-rent-of-land
This has real “vaccines cause autism, do your own research” energy lol
Straw man go brrr.
It’s not a straw man if I don’t argue against the point. It’s just me teasing you
What’s the point? Seriously.
This is one of those weird pieces of economic theory that all the neoclassical people act like is settled science despite a long history of good faith studies and publications casting serious doubt.
Most rightwing publications nowdays parrot largely debunked austrian school nonsense as if other countries housing policies don’t exist, or as if the ability of landlords to profit is more important than keeping people in their homes.
The point was to make a quick joke and introduce some levity.
Schools of economic theory no longer exist, in practice - though, post-covid, some new divisions are beginning to arise. Where they aren’t arising is in the efficacy of rent control.
Rent control criticisms aren’t “Austrian school” - they’re just economic orthodoxy. We have tons of data, we’ve seen the impacts.
In my experience, people mostly argue their support rent control emotionally. They assume that wanting to do away with rent control means lack of empathy for the poor or not wanting the government to assist the poor in being housed, which is the exact opposite of how critics of rent control actually feel.
I want people housed and fed. I support initiatives that work, like just giving poor people cash. Our disagreement is in how effective different programs are, which is why I don’t understand the hostility.
I responded to the hostility with a light joke, in an effort to defuse it. You don’t need to agree with me, and you’re free to hold a counter-opinion, but calling me a “piss drinker” is absurd, so you get some absurdity as a response.
Manhattan Institute is right wing bullshit
Instead of slap fighting, why don’t you go click all the citations in the article and do some learning?
“Instead of criticizing this cake made of 98.8% deadly poison and 1.2% cake ingredients, why don’t you just eat around the poison or eat it and just choose not to ingest it?”
^^ This is what you sound like to a sane person… If you were curious?
Yes asking you to consider educating yourself is exactly like your strange cake metaphor