Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt
From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: rent review
Message-ID: <2680@dciem.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 22:58:42 GMT
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Posted: Thu Mar  3 17:58:42 1988
References: <1988Feb24.140628.28040@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1433@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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Brad Templeton presents the conventional view, which I believed until
recently, that the lack of rental accomodation is a consequence of
rent controls.  Apparently this is not so.  The Globe and Mail had
an article a few weeks ago (which I didn't keep, so I have no specific
reference) that said that the crunch started before rent controls
came in.  I grant that all the things Brad said sound reasonable
on the surface, but if rent controls started *after* the rental
accomodation began to be scarce, then they can hardly be blamed for
the present situation, can they?

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Martin Taylor
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