Rent control created deadweight loss.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building.
There are many, many people who have lost 100 pounds and kept it off.
Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.
Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.
I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
I'm in my apartment in trendy Tribeca. I've been down here for 37 years, from before it was a fashionable neighbourhood. It's a wonderful place; it looks over the Hudson River. I can see 30 miles into New Jersey. My landlord would like me to die because the rent is very low. I'm trying to outlive him. He can get a lot more if I disappear.
It always seems to me that my life would look completely different if I didn't have to take care of the rent.
When I first went to visit different agencies in New York, a lot of them were like, 'You have to lose a lot of weight.'
I want 'Rent' to last forever.
Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.