Re:Do rent controls work?
by kelnos on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @08:25PM
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What do you do with the previous tenants for those 6-12 months? By your last statement I assume it's just "figure your own shit out for the next year", which... well, that's really bad. Just the cost of moving (twice) could break some lower-income folks' backs. I wouldn't be surprised if few of those people return after phase 1 is complete.
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I don't know what happened in this particular case, but given how long it took to hash out the details, I would expect that alternative housing was found for the displaced tenants.
I really should ask around; this detail seems to be something that the various newspapers aren't covering.
I agree that having to figure out alternative housing for yourself would be very, very bad for a few classes of tenants. I mention a mitigation in the last sentence of the comment to which you replied. :)