Quote by Thomas Sowell Download Open image ““In short, rent control reduces the rate of housing turnover.”” — Thomas Sowell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Politically, sometimes you get situations where rent control will go through. It is especially true in an emergency, where there is a sudden, sharp… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
There are tremendous barriers to building housing. If we could break them down, the need for rent controls would go away. — Tom Golisano Copy Share Image
A lot of my book, 'The Price of Inequality,' is about why there has been an increase in rent-seeking. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Families who spend more on housing spend less on their children.” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“For many landlords, it was cheaper to deal with the expense of eviction than to maintain their properties; it was possible to skimp on… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
You keep your rent low, which takes some of the pressure off. So when I say 'no,' I mean 'no.' I don't mean, 'Give… — Jonathan Majors Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out that “it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
