Rent Control

[MrDawn]

Do you support Rent Control?

If you don't know what that is, it's where people are pushing the government to force home owners and apartment owners to lower rent or to where they can't charge over a certain amount per month.

 

[The Jason]

The key to ending high rents is more construction, but I'm thinking, in the US particularly, it's a struggle and the cheap labor, illegals, are being thrown out.

 

[freakofnature freakofnature]

As a renter whose rent has sky rocketed in recent years, yes, I would support rent control.

 

[passenger]

Rent Control
Certainly does make lots of sense for renters.
Also, though, seems like there has to be a balancing control justifying the rental owners' expenses for property and other applicable (ever increasing) taxes; insurance, cost of routine maintenance, etc.
The owners are "in it" as a business and will get rid of the rentals if they are costing them money instead of allowing for a REASONABLE profit.

 

[DrLeftover]

So then who is going to pay the taxes on the apartment building, pay the upkeep when the tenants destroy a place, update the AC and heat, paint the hallway, put a new washing machine in the laundry room.......