Path: utzoo!utgpu!utfyzx!oscvax!jan
From: jan@oscvax.UUCP (Jan Sven Trabandt)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: rent review
Message-ID: <595@oscvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Mar-88 14:59:00 EST
Reply-To: jan@oscvax.UUCP (Jan Sven Trabandt)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Ontario Science Centre, Toronto
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Summary: 

>And rent controls? Toronto with rent controls is much more affordable for
>middle class people.... if you can find a place to live. Toronto without
>rent controls would be much more expensive (New York is a good example).
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>The best alternative in my opinion is Toronto with increased gov't housing.
>If there is sufficient moderate-income housing, rent control will not be
>necessary.
>
>John

Explain the logic underlying that conclusion.
New York *has* rent control, introduced many years ago by vote-hungry
politicians (getting votes was the *only* reason they implemented
rent control - the year before the election the same politicians were
staunchly *against* rent control).
And there is *no* affordable housing in NYC. You can live in the slums
(hey, only 40% of housing is uninhabitable or beyond repair in NYC) or
somewhere "nice" like Manhattan, where you are lucky if you can find
a 1-bedroom bachelorette for under $800-$1000.
That's what rent control has done for NYC - destroyed cheap housing
and proliferated high-price condos and the like.

"Rent control - the best way to destroy a city after bombing"

Jan Sven.
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