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I live in a city with rent control and it's a disaster.

It just caused a massive drop in supply and landlords moving to alternative stuff like temporary contracts to get around it. The latter could be legislated against but would probably just cause a further drop in supply.

Ultimately you can't cheat the market, if you want lower prices you either increase supply or decrease demand.



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