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Re:California Approves Statewide Rent Control by tibbon on Thursday September 12, 2019 @08:35AM (#20950694)
Cool- next up, a tax on vacant properties. Maybe they will have to sell.

Perhaps the people can again seize the means of production (part of that being stable housing).

I’d far rather know another 100,000 units are owned by the people that live in them than 100 landlords owning and profiteering from those units.

If this “disrupts” the entire rental industry, that’s fine with me. Didn’t bring much value anyway

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Re:California Approves Statewide Rent Control by rayiner on Thursday September 12, 2019 @09:20AM (#20951085)
That’s worked great everywhere it’s been tried!
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Re:California Approves Statewide Rent Control by icebraining on Thursday September 12, 2019 @09:35AM (#20951244)
> I’d far rather know another 100,000 units are owned by the people that live in them than 100 landlords owning and profiteering from those units.

I'd rather have that too! But it's not the result of these patchwork rules. Fix it properly instead.

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