Rent Control Quotes
- Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities. — Assar Lindbeck
- Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision. — Gunnar Myrdal
- In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city-except for bombing. — Assar Lindbeck
- When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is 'control.' That… — Thomas Sowell
- The Austrian School came into existence when a bunch of Viennese rent-gouging landlords didn't want rent control on the rents they could gouge out of… — Webster Tarpley
- These people talk of a "middle-of-the-road" policy. What they do not see is that the isolated interference, which means the interference with only one small… — Ludwig von Mises
- Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor. — Larry Elder
- If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing that, thanks to… — Evgeny Morozov
- I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it… — Lawrence Block