Benefits Quote by Larry Elder

No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even worse. Drawing…

— Gordon Tullock

Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of their income to housing. When you meet people who…

— Matthew Desmond

What is not OK is for rent-seekers to get rich.

— Angus Deaton

It is critical that low-income consumers have access to alternative products and services such as rent-to-own. It gives working-class families opportunities to obtain decent…

— William Lacy Clay, Jr

What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is quickly approaching the total income of welfare recipients…

— Matthew Desmond

Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.

— Gunnar Myrdal

Low rents mean families have more resources to improve their quality of life and invest in the next generation, facilitating upward mobility.

— Carrie Lam

“Today, the majority of poor renting families in America spend over half of their income on housing, and at least one in four dedicates…

— Matthew Desmond

The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their…

— Thomas Sowell

“Poor neighborhoods provided their residents with quite a lot. In the trailer park, residents met people who knew how to pirate cable, when the…

— Matthew Desmond

If we continue to tolerate this level of poverty in our cities, and go along with eviction as commonplace in poor neighborhoods, it's not…

— Matthew Desmond

Rent control is one policy that economists universally would oppose. It is a grossly inefficient way of allocating housing space and, of course, it…

— James M. Buchanan