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Rent control is another form of pulling up the bridge behind you.


Except renters aren't accumulators in anything like the same way as investors and don't tend to be the ones agitating against development because they're not invested the property and have no incentive to drive it up by limiting housing stock. Guilting the least financially secure for having any degree of predictability and stability is an emotionally manipulative rather than a substantive argument.




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