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People complain that the rent is too damm high (Political Party 2005) and it as become to expensive to live. The Stocktonia City Council enacts a rent control ordinance limiting the maximum amount of rent a landlord may charge for certain properties. Most of the people of Stocktonia can afford the new dirt-cheap rent. Eventually, landlords realize they have no need to maintain the restricted properties—they don’t generate any income, and the people living there can’t afford to live anywhere else. The landlords completely ignore the restricted properties. They focus all their time and money on nicer, profit-yielding investments. After ten years, the rent-controlled buildings are falling apart. They’re unsafe and unsanitary and the only tenants are drug dealers. make graph
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No one likes to pay rent. Yet scarcities of land and urban housing often cause rents to soar in cities. In response to rising rents and hostility toward landlords, governments sometimes impose rent controls. These generally limit the increases on rent to a small year-to year increase and can leave controlled rents far below free-market rents. a. Redraw Figure $4-13$ to illustrate the impact of rent controls for apartments. b. What will be the effect of rent controls on the vacancy rate of apartments? c. What non rent options might arise as a substitute for the higher rents? d. Explain the words of a European critic of rent controls: "Except for bombing, nothing is as efficient at destroying a city as rent controls." (Hint: What would happen to maintenance?)
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