• PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Wouldn’t price regulations be a better solution to all of this

    What would that solve though?

    I mean say, a loaf of bread is price regulated at $3/loaf. Do we treat it like the minimum wage and let it sit there for 15 years at $3? What about bread producers? After a few years, they’re certainly not getting paid the market price for their production. Is that justified to ensure that bread remains at $3?

    The problems of price controls are demonstrated quite convincingly with rent controls versus just building affordable housing: the former doesn’t increase the housing supply which means, even if rent is affordable, some people remain homeless.

    Idk, how are thinking about it?

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      1 year ago

      After a few years, they’re certainly not getting paid the market price for their production.

      Why not? When monopoly sets price it is market price, but when monopsony-like actor does same it is not?

      versus just building affordable housing: the former doesn’t increase the housing supply which means, even if rent is affordable, some people remain homeless.

      I recommend you to watch Rossmann’s walks around NYC where he just shows places that can be rented, but nobody does for 10 years. It is not because there is not enough supply, there was oversupply even before pandemic, just a lot of companies prefer to let place rot, then rent at fair literally market price because it will bring down rent on other places. Well, for housing there is also ban of everything that is not single-family shed or humant colony.