"Hey this policy is actually bad for everyone, all the experts agree" *unhinged ranting* it happens everything you discuss rent control
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Cheap rent is good and desirable. It's most easily achieved through abundant building
sep 4, 2025, 10:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Yup. The best way to make landlords have less power is by reducing the scarcity of their assets. You'd think leftist inclined people would be all over this.
sep 4, 2025, 11:07 pm • 2 0 • view
We are all for building more housing, but that's going to take years and no one is even talking seriously about getting started on the kind of housing that's needed. In the meantime, something has to be done to protect low-income renters from eviction and homelessness.
sep 5, 2025, 12:05 am • 0 0 • view
Austin simply changed its zoning laws in 2022 and rent has dropped 7.5 each year since.
sep 5, 2025, 12:10 am • 2 0 • view
The best way to destroy the power of landlords is to nationalize housing and abolish landlords, you just want to make more literal lords who make money by doing nothing and sucking the blood of people who can’t afford homes.
sep 4, 2025, 11:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Cool let me know when you get the political power that would let you nationalize housing and "abolish landlords". Meanwhile in the real world cities like Austin have allowed more building of units and rent has fallen
sep 4, 2025, 11:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Wow that graph would be impressive if it wasn’t also showing the fact rent climbs an astronomical degree every single year even before the pandemic
sep 4, 2025, 11:45 pm • 0 0 • view
With nothing but a policy change Austin rents have dropped 7.5% each year, they're now below pre pandemic levels. Unlike your fantasy that you have no way of accomplishing
sep 4, 2025, 11:49 pm • 1 0 • view
? Your graph show rent being 200$ more expensive than it was pre pandemic lol, 200$ is a fucking lot of money (not that you would have any concept of that)
sep 4, 2025, 11:50 pm • 0 0 • view
It's 2025, they dropped even more from the 2024 price. Anyway you've dodged the question, how are you getting the power to implement your dream?
sep 4, 2025, 11:53 pm • 1 0 • view
So they again dropped to a price that was already ludicrously prohibitively expensive? Wow! Also I plan on getting people like Fateh elected so rent control spreads nation wide and forces the building of government housing
sep 5, 2025, 12:09 am • 0 0 • view
Many places have rent control. How much government housing have those places built after enacting it?
sep 5, 2025, 12:12 am • 2 0 • view
You are way too unpleasant a person to be this clueless on a topic
sep 4, 2025, 11:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes they weren't building sufficient housing then
sep 4, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, sorry - I mistook you for a serious person interested in real solutions for real issues My b, won't do that again
sep 4, 2025, 11:37 pm • 1 0 • view
(Psst if we nationalized all housing the NIMBY pressures that make it difficult for private developers to build at scale will still exist for public government development)
sep 4, 2025, 11:38 pm • 2 0 • view
Which doesn’t require landlords or raising rent every year, the government can just build housing instead of relying on the whims of predatory vampire landlords
sep 4, 2025, 11:33 pm • 0 0 • view