@fattailed @MLKLabor @eyesonthestorm It’s telling that you have no argument of substance.

@Cannabis_Cane @comicmatters …less housing offered. That means more leverage for owners and higher rents. It doesn’t require new ideas. It requires the one idea proven to work and that’s more housing. If someone is trying Gs and unable to cover their basics alone, that’s where govt should step in to help.

@Cannabis_Cane @comicmatters If you institute rent regulations and capital restrictions, you make matters worse. Want lower rents? That comes with more housing.

@Cannabis_Cane @comicmatters They’re*

@RealEstLaw360 Because why let NYC housing have all the fun?

@Cannabis_Cane So your solution to a housing shortage is rent regulations, which worsen shortages, and restricting capital in housing, which also worsens shortages? You realize it’s those lower income folks who suffer most with such policies, right?

@comicmatters @Cannabis_Cane The TOTAL holdings of all of these mega landlords COMBINED is 3% of rental housing or about 1% of US housing. Not exactly a controlling interest.

@fattailed @MLKLabor @eyesonthestorm Not a landlord. Not ever going to be a landlord.

@rpjpaints @rnelson0 @BrandonLBradfor Nobody was disputing the article. It’s your ridiculous conclusion that it means rent control is needed that was disputed.

@checkout9999 @ott3000 @onpoli @Garnet_2203 @bk_belton Ford should’ve done more, but we’ve seen a decades long lack of housing under rent control driving a shortage exacerbated by a population surge, high interest rates that make new housing much more expensive, & ignorant calls to end the RC exemption for new builds. It adds up.

@checkout9999 @ott3000 @onpoli @Garnet_2203 @bk_belton I agree Ford should have worked to phase out rent controls entirely. But the exemption for new builds was better than nothing.

@casemation @helloimbernardo Rent controls shouldn’t exist. If someone is trying and can’t cover their basic needs, that’s where govt should help with fixed amt unrestricted housing vouchers to fill the gap between what the person can afford and the cost of basic housing.

@Cori_H67 @AP Why doesn’t it? I agree the point shouldn’t be belabored. So they address it and move on.

@mattdaniel01 Rent controls drive housing shortages, discourage maintenance and investment on rentals, and make housing increasingly inaccessible. How is that a logical solution to anything?

@helloimbernardo @casemation Opposition to rent control is about competence, not politics.

@pashby93964 @Dan4Barnet People’s votes don’t determine success or failure. They determine preference.

@brklynmind @chantalmclaugh @SallyGold @BradleyHonan I don’t see the legislature fixing it. It’s going to come from SCOTUS. SCOTUS lacks the power to craft a path forward. They only decide constitutionality. Forced renewals and succession will go away. The question will be of rent regulations themselves are considered a taking.

@Cori_H67 @AP 1. I’m not MAGA. 2. If you’re transgender, you should have the same rights as anyone else. 3. Sports are about all playing by the same rules. When a division exists excluding the male performance advantage, it is unfair to compete in the division with the advantage. That’s it.