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Re:The World Is Run by People No Smarter Than You by WalterBright on Friday November 11, 2022 @03:57PM (#33566725)
What about the non-tenants who now cannot find a place to rent, because it's less profitable to build more apartments?
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Re:The World Is Run by People No Smarter Than You by medvezhenok on Saturday November 12, 2022 @04:00AM (#33571392)
You could always [raise taxes and] subsidize apartment-building... the G.I. bill would like a word.

Government does plenty of things that are unprofitable for the benefit of all.

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Re:The World Is Run by People No Smarter Than You by piva00 on Saturday November 12, 2022 @01:19PM (#33575547)
Switzerland has a pretty good policy for rent control and tenant housing [1].

This kind of policy needs to be a multipronged approach in policy to provide both new construction and long-term leases (usually 20 years).

[1] https://housingpolicytoolkit.oecd.org/www/CountryFiches/hous...

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