On Feb 5, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
> As landlords never tire of whining, rent control is an expropriation
> of their property's productive value - and I don't know of a single
> city or state government that wouldn't leap to abolish it if it
> weren't tremendously popular.
It has been abolished in places - Cambridge, Mass., and Santa Monica come to mind. And it's being gradually abolished in New York City, through vacancy decontrol. And there's been no popular uprising in any of those places, has there?
Doug