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Guess we better institute rent controls first then

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Shut up baby I know it

Too bad 80% of the country would call us commies for suggesting it.

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That alone would be better than UBI.

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Rent Control can only have one outcome. Decreased amount of available new or renovated rentals which coupled with an ever increasing demand for housing, creates some of the housing shortages we see in larger cities today.

UBI can be an effective way to fight poverty, and would be an even more effective way to combat poverty if we implemented a Negative Income tax whereby all welfare programs are rolled into the funding.

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More 👏 Empty 👏 Houses 👏 Than 👏 Homeless 👏 People 👏

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Rent Control can only have one outcome. Decreased amount of available new or renovated rentals which coupled with an ever increasing demand for housing, creates some of the housing shortages we see in larger cities today.

Only if you assume that private landlords are the only way to supply housing.

There is no reason to assume that.

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The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest revolution in history and led to an almost entirely equitable distribution of land ownership

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And how did that work out for the estimated 15-55 million people that died of starvation as a result of the “equitable distribution of land ownership”?

Source

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