Rent Control Violates Property Rights and Due Process

By Ilya Shapiro

This blogpost was coauthored by Cato legal associate Trevor Burrus, who also worked on the brief discussed below. Rent control is literally a textbook example of bad economic policy. Economics textbooks often use it as an example of how price ceilings create shortages, poor quality goods, and under-the-table dealings. A 1992 survey revealed that 93 [...]

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