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Re:Google Plans Large New York City Expansion by jswizzy on Thursday November 08, 2018 @09:59AM (#18406632)
Both NYC and SF are rent controlled areas. Rent control is cancer that punishes younger and newer inhabitants while making rent cheap for the rich. In fact, NYC has more vacant apartments than homeless people.
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Re:Google Plans Large New York City Expansion by CydeWeys on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:59AM (#18407715)
Rent control is much less of a thing in NYC than it is in SF. There are only 27k rent controlled apartments in all of NYC (with its >8M population). More info here: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/rentguidelinesboard/resources/rent...

There are plenty of rent stabilized apartments in NYC, but that's a much different and weaker thing, and isn't comparable to rent control in SF.

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