Anonymous #1 26w

Because the free market has been working so well 😂😂

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Anonymous #1 26w

okay well you don’t live here so cry about it? we’re gonna enjoy not being fucked raw by cuomo for a bit

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Anonymous #1 26w

He’s gonna freeze my rent and build hundreds of thousands of units of affordable housing 😁😁

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Anonymous OP 26w

They're just jealous they'll have to keep paying 1/3 of their salary for rent

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Anonymous #2 26w

We've already tried those policies in Albany and it just led to widespread disinvestment in housing and lower-quality homes

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Anonymous #1 26w

Oh yes because landlords maintain market rate housing so well

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Anonymous #2 26w

"Rent control increases the shortage of housing, reduces the quality of rental apartments and decreases mobility." Almost all studies that have been done on this subject show the same results.

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Anonymous #2 26w

Well guess what, it's even worse for rent-controlled homes. Limiting the amount of money landlords can earn from homeowners disincentivizes them from doing literally anything to help their tenants.

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Anonymous #1 26w

Except we have laws that do require them to do those things. That’s why this city is so great. Landlords are forced to provide services. They don’t just do it out of the goodness of their hearts

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Anonymous #1 26w

Cool graph though

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Anonymous #1 26w

*tenants

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Anonymous #1 26w

Bitch that’s capitalism. Capitalism incentivizes them to not help their tenants, because then they get to pocket more money. What YOU are describing is retaliatory abuse by landlords, where they are told “you cannot make obscene percentages that harm people off of an essential resource like landlords,” and they respond by abusing their tenants by refusing to honor maintenance obligations in their contract to apply pressure on public officials to repeal policy.

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Anonymous OP 26w

*essential resource like housing

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Anonymous #1 26w

Did you even read the study?

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Anonymous #2 26w

Yeah I’m sure that’ll help. Enjoy not getting calls returned from your landlord and even higher costs of housing when your property gets foreclosed.

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Anonymous OP 26w

Well no shit, we live in a capitalist society. Rent control won’t magically change the fact that we live under capitalism, all that will happen is that rich people will stop investing in low-income housing and providing services for the tenants they already have. It's a shitty band-aid solution, the average person will only experience worse hardships.

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Anonymous #3 26w

Yeah, did you? "It also results in higher rents for uncontrolled units (i.e. all other housing), lower mobility, and reduced residential construction. These unintended effects counteract the desired effect, thus diminishing the net benefit of rent control."

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Anonymous #1 26w

Yes but you cherry picked part of the results to make it seem like there were no benefits

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Anonymous #1 26w

Eh I Sortive agree. I think rent freeze is good temporary solution but long term he needs to get affordable housing units up fast with a combo of state housing and private incentives/financing.

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Anonymous #1 26w

Arguing economics with these folks is crazy 😭like yea theirs an argument to better regulate slum lords and a place for public housing but folks acting as if it isn’t well established large scale rent freezes lead to housing shortages. A simple supply and demand issue…no incentive to add supply cooks the market and the gov can’t make up for it alone. We need some balanced marketization not just this “all landlords are evil” gospel socialist are preaching. It ain’t based on any economic reality

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Anonymous #6 26w

In what fantasy land

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Anonymous #3 26w

more in many places - nearing 2/3 on average

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Anonymous #1 26w

sounds like you're making an argument for punishing retaliatory behavior from landlords. great idea! bring these vampires to their knees. not like landlords have real jobs anyway

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Anonymous #3 26w

He doesn’t want to build more housing which is the only fix

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Anonymous #2 26w

The majority of black and Latino voters don’t like this dude

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Anonymous #6 26w

where are you getting this?

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Anonymous #6 26w

That’s not true. They won’t vote for Adams, he’s massively unpopular, hence why he dropped out of the primary. And they’re not voting for any Republican but certainly not Sliwa

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Anonymous #2 26w

Cuomo dropped out and they don’t like Mamdani

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