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Re:Rent control isn’t working in Sweden by pydry on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:38AM (#28315523)
>I mean, OP literally did that, erroneously implying that rent control increases supply

False. OP (me) was implying that it didnt meaningfully restrict supply.

I suspect a longitudnal study would find the two variables to be tenuously related at best.

>This is why people get so annoyed with many proponents of rent control

Because they make wrong inferences?

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Re:Rent control isn’t working in Sweden by marcinzm on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:31AM (#28316193)
>False. OP (me) was implying that it didnt meaningfully restrict supply.

The OP said "fastest period of homebuilding" with fastest being in italics. I don't see how that can be read as anything except saying rent control increases supply.

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Re:Rent control isn’t working in Sweden by pydry on Friday August 27, 2021 @10:38AM (#28328371)
No. Absolutely not. It simply throws a huge amount of doubt on the prevailing narrative that it severely restricts supply.

One could make the argument that it helped increase supply but that wasnt my intention.

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