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Re:Europe embraces rent controls, a policy that never works by User23 on Friday July 26, 2019 @08:04PM (#20539379)
Primus, the people with the 20 million dollar Malibu mansions don't want their view spoiled by a 20 story affordable housing tower. So they use ecological impact studies and similar tools to enforce an impenetrable NIMBY shield.

Secondus, the people with the 20 million dollar Malibu mansions are the ones who pay for the politicians' campaigns.

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Re:Europe embraces rent controls, a policy that never works by localcrisis on Friday July 26, 2019 @08:11PM (#20539414)
my dude why're you talking in latin this ain't pompeii
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