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Why isn’t everything rent-controlled?

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0:00What if we could just ban ridiculously

0:01high rents? That is what more and more

0:03cities and states are trying to do with

0:05rent control, which limits how much

0:06landlords can raise rents every year on

0:08some apartments? That might sound like a

0:10great idea. Why shouldn't landlords

0:12profit a little less so people can

0:14afford to make their rent? I'm a

0:16lifelong renter and my rent is pretty

0:18steep and it would be my dream to be

0:20able to know I won't be hit with a

0:21massive rent hike next year. If only it

0:23were that simple. Rent control can

0:25protect a limited number of tenants who

0:27are grandfathered into low rents, but

0:29it's not costless. It can sometimes

0:31worsen the very housing affordability

0:33problem that it's trying to solve. In

0:35high-cost cities, housing is so

0:36expensive because there is so much

0:38demand to live there. There aren't

0:40enough homes and we need to build more

0:41of them. But when rent increases are

0:43tightly restricted, landlords have a

0:45strong incentive to take apartments off

0:47the rental market entirely, which

0:49reduces rental housing supply. We saw

0:51this happen in San Francisco where a

0:53group of economists found that an

0:54expansion of the city's rent control law

0:56in 1994 led some landlords to convert

0:59their rental apartments to condos. So,

1:01the supply of rentals in the city

1:03shrank, causing the rents in non-run

1:05control departments to rise. Trying to

1:07artificially suppress rents is kind of

1:09like trying to hold the lid down on a

1:11boiling pot. The pressure will

1:13inevitably boil over somewhere. So, why

1:15not just rent control everything? that

1:18would prevent new housing from being

1:20built at all, which would create an even

1:22more severe housing shortage. But that

1:24said, not all rent control laws are

1:25created equal, and rent control is

1:27trying to achieve a really important

1:29goal to give tenants not just

1:31affordability, but also long-term

1:33stability and more dignity. You can find

1:35all my reporting on this very nuanced

1:37issue at vox.com.