Europe embraces rent controls, a policy that never works

Re:Europe embraces rent controls, a policy that never works by rizzom5000 on Friday July 26, 2019 @08:22PM (#20539490)

According to Mercer, who conducts - 'The quality of living survey is conducted to help governments and major companies place employees on international assignments. The survey also identifies those cities with the highest personal safety ranking based upon internal stability, crime, effectiveness of law enforcement and relationships with other countries. In this case, Luxembourg is top, followed by Bern, Helsinki and Zürich, all equally placed at number 2.'

'Countries with cities commonly ranked in the top 50 include Austria, Switzerland, New Zealand, Germany, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Australia, Sweden and the United States. Vienna (Austria) has been ranked first for ten consecutive years.'

I mean, sure, Germany has more cities on the list than the US; but Germany isn't the EU. Most of the EU has zero cities in the top 50.

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Re:Europe embraces rent controls, a policy that never works by reillyse on Friday July 26, 2019 @09:35PM (#20539834)

The US has zero cities in the top 30 of that list, not really supporting your argument. (EDIT, it is also amazingly US centric and still doesn't rate US cities higher, NYC is given a base score of 100 and other cities are essentially compared to it).

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Re:Europe embraces rent controls, a policy that never works by point78 on Saturday July 27, 2019 @06:30PM (#20544658)

Germany isn't the EU? What?

EU has 30 of the top 50 places....US has 6...come on now.

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