Oregon expected to enact first state-wide rent control law

Post by mjevans » Tue, Feb 26, 2019, 10:38 PM UTC

Stratoscope wrote: post #16

mjevans wrote: post #2

Rent control is a bandaid that tries to fix fundamental systemic flaws and lack of planning by society. Problems: They do mention Oregon's land use laws. I didn't see it while skimming but (for west coast states) the land that is actually "state" instead of federal is also an issue (#1). However the biggest issue is that the Supply vs Demand curves for housing are simply insane. Demand is mostly dictated by jobs, and…

> I can never remember what variant of markdown this site uses... please don't convert my text to italics. HN doesn't use any variant of Markdown, it doesn't use Markdown at all . The only formatting options here are: 1. Surround text with asterisks (not underscores) to italicize it. 2. Indent text by two spaces (not four spaces) for code formatting - but please never use this for block quotes as people often do by m…