Ricardo Tranjan: Economic costs of soaring rents are too high to ignore potential benefits of some rent control options. Find out more here.

Nobody builds new rental properties that aren’t profitable. I dunno, would you, if you had that kind of money?

If I were a government? Yes. Because housing people will have far reaching benefits that go beyond short term profits.

No, if you were a potential landlord.

Rent control implies private landlords, so you can’t just say you wouldn’t become a landlord.

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