Rent-setting algorithms have become a target of consumer protection advocates in recent years, who say they effectively enable landlords to collude and drive up the cost of housing
“This bill may have unintended consequences of creating a hostile environment for providers of rental housing and could result in further diminished supply of rental housing based on inadequate data.”
The idea that landlords provide housing is so insanely ass-backwards
Rent counts toward GDP so if the state built housing and provided it for free that would make the country less economically productive, since all that money going towards rent no longer is, and all you would get for it is housing for everyone
The idea that landlords provide housing is so insanely ass-backwards
“Landlords provide housing!”
Construction Workers:
Landlords providing housing is such a ludicrous concept that you have to be getting paid by landlords to believe it
Landlords provide housing in the same way insurance companies provide healthcare. It’s cynical neoliberal semantic dancing.
Rent counts toward GDP so if the state built housing and provided it for free that would make the country less economically productive, since all that money going towards rent no longer is, and all you would get for it is housing for everyone
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