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From Thomas Sowell, economist:

It is the same story when housing prices are controlled by government. Rent control has allowed some people to take up more housing space than they would if they had to pay the full price that reflects other people's demand for housing.

The net result, whether in New York or San Francisco or elsewhere, is a lot of apartments with just one person living in each, and lots of families who cannot find a vacant place to move into. Housing shortages have resulted from rent control in cities around the world.

1 posted on 02/28/2007 12:54:13 PM PST by pissant
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I like Duncan Hunter


71 posted on 02/28/2007 6:16:05 PM PST by demsux
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Anyone still believe that Rudy is a fiscal, free-market conservative after reading this? He is another Richard Nixon.


78 posted on 04/11/2007 5:00:36 PM PDT by Ol' Sparky
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