Re: The END of Rent Controls

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From: Frank Ch. Eigler
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 00:00

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Jeffrey Brown (large@zap.io.org) wrote:
: [...]
: To sum up:  short term - bad, in some cases desperate, situation for 
: tenants.  
: 	    long term - who knows?  Under a more enlightened government it 
: may be worthwhile.

The real question is a more fundamental one: is it right that the law
interferes in voluntary business agreements between a landlord and a
tenant?  I continue to argue that the answer is "no".  The only
difficulty is figuring out how best to stop doing it, not whether to
stop it.

-- 
Frank Ch. Eigler // fche@elastic.org
                // eigler@vnet.ibm.com
               // fche@db.toronto.edu

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From: fche@elastic.org (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Subject: Re: The END of Rent Controls
Date: 1996/08/08
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