Re:Rent Control Needs Retirement, Not a Comeback
by gwbas1c on Friday February 09, 2018 @01:52PM
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> If politicians actually want to make sure everyone who needs a place to rest their head has one, there’s only one way to do it: Build more housing. Which means, in turn, loosening the legal restrictions and community veto points that make it so hard to add supply. Because there’s no way to escape the fundamental math: Unless you build enough housing to shelter the people who want to live in your city, a whole lot of people will be left out in the cold.
Plain and simple: The way to have economic justice is to build enough housing to satisfy demand.
Plain and simple: The way to have economic justice is to build enough housing to satisfy demand.