Date: April 15th, 2005

Rent control: seldom what it seems

15 April, 2005 (18:46) | Primer Posts |

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: heroin for urban neighborhoods

15 April, 2005 (18:37) | Uncategorized |

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.
 
In the curious way of such things, my involvement with affordable housing began professionally and personally at roughly the same time.  Having graduated college […]