Why it’s so hard to find an apartment you can afford - eviltoast
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Not a fucking thing about a lack of rent control or the fact that huge megacorporations are buying up all the apartments.

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        9 months ago

        But the article claims it’s that there aren’t enough apartments for everyone! Could that possibly be total and utter bullshit?

    • stoly@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      You mention rent control and hateful people come out of the woodwork to attack you.

    • qwrty@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      um actually rent control (alone) historically has made housing worse, reduced housing quality, and raised prices 🤓🤓🤓

      That’s if you mean price capping by “rent control,” if there is anything else, I don’t have anything to say about any other type of rent control, as I don’t know much about those.

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        9 months ago

        Every rent control argument I have seen involves specific neighborhoods that are rent controlled. If you apply it universally, those problems would not be an issue.

        All you have to do is peg a price cap to inflation.