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Re:Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of ho... by hangonhn on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:30PM (#16100170)
Is this a well known problem? It has never occured to me that this could happen but it makes a lot of intuitive sense. Do you know if anyone has measures this effect? Very curious how much this contributes to the Bay Area traffic problems.
Re:Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of ho... by ThrustVectoring on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:37PM (#16100260)
Second-order effects are difficult to study in general. My comment was driven entirely by fundamental economic modeling: price controls generate harms by forbidding beneficial trades, and people move to reduce their commute. There are other reasons why people move, and I expect to find these situations as well. For instance, people tend to downsize their housing after their children move out, but who would downsize when the smaller apartment is more expensive?