If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too

Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by dredmorbius on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:13PM (#19508870)

Your first point is, sadly, very true.

Your second remains economically invalid for the reasons already stated.

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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by lern_too_spel on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:34PM (#19508987)

Nope. New landlords are incentivized to build housing. The only thing that could stop them is regulations from existing landlords, but in a place with enough votes for rent control or subsidies, existing landlords do not have the votes to stop them.

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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by dredmorbius on Thursday March 28, 2019 @12:23PM (#19513689)

Counterfactual: San Francisco has rent control and subsidies (Title 8). Landlords have the votes to stop construction.

Plus; the probem is *regional8. It's the Bay Area as a whole which is chronically short new housing. SF alone cannot absorb all new demand. Similar dynamics affect most constrained markets.

Again; your economic understanding is flawed, as is your grasp of historical facts.

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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by lern_too_spel on Sunday March 31, 2019 @12:30AM (#19533877)

It is not a counterfactual. Once you have rent control, existing renters will no longer be in favor of building new housing. You're confusing having the votes at two different times, among other things.

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