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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by djd20 on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:53AM (#19805965)
This depends how you implement rent control. The UAE market has rent controls - the landlord is only allowed to adjust rents within a % and if the rental index of the area is more than 10-15% higher than what you are currently paying. They are also building plenty of new housing to help keep rents stable. This second part is key - and needs to be there for this to work. Your comments assume a rental market that is not increasing in supply.
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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by lmm on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:58AM (#19805989)
I'm assuming a rental market that isn't increasing in supply because that's the case that rent control is designed to address. If you're building enough supply to keep market-level rents low then rent control becomes irrelevant.
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