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    1 year ago

    The author of that article is Megan McArdle. A quick look at her other articles:

    • An article that attempts to shift blame away from media execs and onto consumers, in response to the writers/actors’ protests
    • “Higher minimum wages may increase homelessness” (literal article title)
    • Says we shouldn’t expect to keep taxing wealthy people more
    • Wants to reduce medicaid but conveniently doesn’t mention the amount of death poor people will experience as a result of that, using the same austerity justifications we’ve heard in Europe already (that turned out to be bullshit)

    I’m sure she has no right wing economics bias lol

    Here’s a much more balanced article on rent control that actually sources econ research papers by a person with a PhD in economics: https://jwmason.org/slackwire/considerations-on-rent-control/

    tl;dr: rent control is not the evil we thought it was. It can be a useful policy tool alongside other housing policies.