ISSN:
1572-8528
Keywords:
rent control
;
landlords
;
tenants
;
economic incentives
;
homelessness
;
deregulation
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Economics
Notes:
Abstract Rent control is a public policy which fails on both normative and positive economic grounds. In the former case, it violates all canons of equity, of both right (private property rights are sacrosanct) and left (it does not promote egalitarianism, rather, often, it enriches rich tenants and impoverishes poor landlords). In the latter, it leads to inefficiency, deterioration of rental housing, reduces incentives for upkeep and maintenance, reduces labor mobility, exacerbates landlord tenant relations, promotes housing abandonment and homelessness, and misallocates resources away from residential rental units. This sovietization of housing has effects similar to the sovietization of anything else: farming, factories, industry, forestry, whatever.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1007704207024
Permalink
