The biggest protection you can give tenants isn’t rent control its choice. The choice to leave a bad landlord situation and move to a better situation. Only by building a lot of new homes can we give tenants this protection.
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The economist (naturally) takes issue: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2015/08/30/do-rent-controls-work … Tokyo a counterexample for needing both (absent nimbyism): https://www.vox.com/2016/8/8/12390048/san-francisco-housing-costs-tokyo …
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They also have a totally different culturally attitude toward housing in that it’s disposable, whereas our system which we got from the English treats housing as the core wealth accumulation, savings tool.
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The German system is failing to stop the gentrification of Berlin.
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I have Berliners staying with me right now and they say it’s like nowhere near anything ever approaching what’s going on in American cities...
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Our shortage is far more impactful than any weaknesses that might exist in tenant protection laws. You can’t protect a poor person from a rich person competing for the same home but you can make 2 homes.
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