Europe embraces rent controls, a policy that never works

Re:Europe embraces rent controls, a policy that never works by harimau777 on Friday July 26, 2019 @08:11PM (#20539415)

I personally think that a lot of it is because, other than preventing all development there is no way to insure that the building next to your house won't be some soulless, concrete eyesore or something else that lowers property value.

I'd like to see less efforts to demonize NIMBYism and more efforts to eliminate the factors that make NIMBYism necessary.

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Re:Europe embraces rent controls, a policy that never works by icelancer on Friday July 26, 2019 @08:18PM (#20539462)

>> I personally think that a lot of it is because, other than preventing all development there is no way to insure that the building next to your house won't be some soulless, concrete eyesore or something else that lowers property value.

This is the definition of NIMBYism.

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