drew

oh, damn, i guess skyrocketing rents in those cities are just fake news

Skyrocketing rents in *unregulated units* We have methods to create affordable housing already in practice- unfortunately you'd rather team up with landlords to use *their ideas to create more wealth inequality instead of teaming up with the anti-landlord locals

i get that you hate new people in NYC but new people come here every year and they need a place to live--they have been since forever. Trying to rent control your way out of the problem does nothing to address the fundamental imbalance of supply and demand

I get that you hate an affordable NYC, but new people have more than enough available housing to move into in NYC as it exists currently. What they don't have is enough rent controlled units

when you impose rent control on some units, and housing is scarce, what do you think landlords do in situations where rent control doesn't apply (e.g., non-controlled units or new tenants)

if rent control is universal, housing is scarce, and raising rents upon changing tenants is forbidden, any landlord will simply raise rents the maximum amount allowable every time their tenants renew their leases