drew

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

that's why we need regulations on that lil loophole too :)

What happens is this is a dumb hypothetical because a lot of people are dying every second & more housing *is* being built