Ricardo Tranjan: Economic costs of soaring rents are too high to ignore potential benefits of some rent control options. Find out more here.
  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    41·
    1 month ago

    Nobody builds new rental properties that aren’t profitable. I dunno, would you, if you had that kind of money?

    • SGforce@lemmy.ca
      22·
      1 month ago

      If I were a government? Yes. Because housing people will have far reaching benefits that go beyond short term profits.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        1 month ago

        No, if you were a potential landlord.

        Rent control implies private landlords, so you can’t just say you wouldn’t become a landlord.