Jesse Powell on Twitter: "@benedictevans I know because my landlord told me my $2500 studio had to make up for the identical studio next door he'd been getting $900 for, from a traveling investment banker who's barely there but keeps the apartment because it's so cheap." / Twitter

Rent control leads to higher rents. I know this is counterintuitive, but I don’t understand why a professional politician hasn’t bothered to do the reading 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Hugo Gye

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· Mar 3, 2020

Sadiq Khan launches re-election campaign today saying contest will be 'a referendum on rent control': inews.co.uk/news/london-ma

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I know because my landlord told me my $2500 studio had to make up for the identical studio next door he'd been getting $900 for, from a traveling investment banker who's barely there but keeps the apartment because it's so cheap.

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