I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.
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People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.
There are tremendous barriers to building housing. If we could break them down, the need for rent controls would go away.
We've got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we've got to see rents coming down.
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.
I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.
Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
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