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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Rent Control can only have one outcome. Decreased amount of available new or renovated rentals which coupled with an ever increasing demand for housing, creates some of the housing shortages we see in larger cities today.

Only if you assume that private landlords are the only way to supply housing.

There is no reason to assume that.