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_wmhc on March 2, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rent controls have split housing in Berlin into tw...

I think you would first need to show that bread and housing follow the same rules if you want to say that analogy applies to rent control

robertlagrant on March 6, 2021 [–]

This is an odd statement. The claim is - I think correctly - that regulating a price to combat scarcity will never help. Why should this statement apply to bread and not housing, or vice versa?

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