Rent Control might be the poster child for Populist Politics. - Someone else will pay - That someone is someone else we don't like - There are claimed to be no downsides. - The policy won't… (View Post)

a He's stated that he's in favour of rent control. In New York - the town where it was proved, to destruction, that rent control doesn't work. (View Post)

Subsidised housing works (for those in the subsidised housing) - because the policy is paid for. The problem with rent control is that it is about imposing a cost and denying there is an issue. He ca… (View Post)

Denmark Strait? (View Post)

Someone fell for AI data, I think https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-in-the-uk-since-1270?time=1940..latest (View Post)