"Joe, Kam push rent control — the best way to destroy cities besides bombing them"
August 05, 2024
You can fool some of the economists some of the time, but it's really difficult to fool all the economists all the time, so this says it all: "Few policies raise economists’ ire as much as rent control."
Related: Matthew Iglesias wrote:
The tired, old, neoliberal conventional wisdom is that rent control is a bad idea but if you delve into the most up-to-date research on the subject you'll see that . . . yeah, it's still a bad idea.