Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Rent control and housing
 
  • Locked thread
Talmonis
Jun 24, 2012
The fairy of forgiveness has removed your red text.

wateroverfire posted:

A rent control scheme that allowed a landlord to charge enough to cover taxes, maintenance and a return on invested capital with an allowance for a vacancy rate would probably be less distorting than otherwise. OTOH, arguing with the rate board would probably be a PITA and the landlord would be have to be making less than they could in an unregulated development or else what's the point of the rent control scheme? On the third hand, it would probably suck for property owners who have lived in the neighborhood for generations and want to cash out by either selling or renting their buildings by forcing down both rents and property values. On the fourth hand, effective rent control is guaranteed to create demand for grey market subletting that whoever is renting a unit at the time the measure goes through will be able to take advantage of.

And independent of all that we have to ask the question "should we care that poor people are moving out of this neighborhood anyway", and I think the response to that is not obviously "yes" independent of circumstances.

So in conclusion: It would probably be more useful to talk about a specific program in a specific place than to debate the merits of rent control as a general idea.

Landlords having to do more work for their money than sit back and collect it? Say it isn't so.

* # ¿ Oct 16, 2014 14:44
  • Quote
Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 8, 2024 07:55
  • Quote
Talmonis
Jun 24, 2012
The fairy of forgiveness has removed your red text.

tbp posted:

What the-- someone should tell the President we figured out how to solve poverty!

The politicians across the U.S. are fully aware that they could fund universal public healthcare, education, housing and transportation via proper progressive taxation on both income and capital gains.

They simply don't want to, and never will. It's a moot point.

* # ¿ Oct 17, 2014 21:27
  • Quote
  • Locked thread
The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Rent control and housing