On Feb 5, 2008, at 9:59 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
> No, but that doesn't alter the likelihood that the governments of the
> State of New York or the City of Los Angeles would discard their rent
> controls instantly if they thought their populations would stand for
> it. Leaving aside the unfortunate leftist tendency to see everything
> in terms of cronyism and corruption (and developers and landlords are
> very kind to politicians everywhere), the enhanced tax bases alone
> would make it well worth their while. Or do you see some reason other
> than popularity that these laws remain in place after decades of
> maneuvering by the propertied classes to abolish them?
But they're not really "in place." They're gone in Cambridge and Santa Monica, and they're going in NYC. WHere else is there rent control in the U.S.?
Doug