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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by kmonsen on Thursday May 02, 2019 @09:19AM (#19807569)
That is not how rent-control works in some places. For example here in Zurich Switzerland you cannot raise rents more than x% even when changing tenants, which means that moving is fine as all places are rent controlled together.
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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by njepa on Thursday May 02, 2019 @09:50AM (#19807873)
It is essentially never how it works. Why would you actively regulate something so people can't move? It is when you abandon rent control that the systems become incompatible and people can't move.
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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by i_am_proteus on Thursday May 02, 2019 @10:31AM (#19808274)
It's not "so people can't move," inflexibility is a side effect of rent control. The "I can't move because I'm locked into a rent-stabilized lease" phenomenon is real, painfully so in NYC.

It's also a problem that's essentially invisible to anyone who bought into the market at a good price, or is wealthy enough to pay market-rate rents. But for the rest of us, it hurts.

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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by njepa on Thursday May 02, 2019 @11:06AM (#19808641)
As far as I can tell that is exactly because they abandoned rent stabilization making that market incompatible as it now only applies to certain units and triggers rent increases when you move.
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