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RGB755 t1_jdbxpqi wrote

Reply to comment by ultima-ratio-populi in Hundreds Evicted in Isla Vista by New Landlord - The Santa Barbara Independent by Croughman

You don’t need crazy high home ownership rates to get the situation under control though. In Germany they’re working on a temporary rent cap to go on top of existing market regulations.

In France they’ve passed laws to tie rent increases to energy efficiency investments.

Plenty of sensible approaches exist to regulate the rental market, some countries just don’t have the political will to use them.

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Ban-Circumcision-Now t1_jdnxsi5 wrote

The problem in The U.S. is that we severely restrict high density housing that would makes houses/rentals more affordable

Rent control would only further reduce new apartment/ housing construction, who is going to take the huge expenses and risk to build new housing when they can’t make any money from it

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