Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Why does rent control exist? Because politics trumps policy. But even the most abject voter pandering must have a cover story.
As Buttercup sang:
Things are seldom what they seem
Skim milk masquerades as cream
From a public-policy perspective, there are so many things wrong with rent control (which I call ‘heroin for neighborhoods’) that it will take [...]
Rent control is bad public policy: bad from an economic perspective, bad from a social perspective.
I found this out first hand starting thirty years ago, and I’m still finding it out.
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In the curious way of such things, my involvement with affordable housing began professionally and personally at roughly the [...]
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