> Rent control. This is often unfair and inflates price of non-rent controlled apartments.
There's the rub. Virtually all rent control schemes in North America only apply to a subset of properties (usually the shitty ones), which isn't fair and often doesn't work. Meanwhile, Germany has a long history of successful rent control, perhaps not coincidentally because it applies universally.
There's the rub. Virtually all rent control schemes in North America only apply to a subset of properties (usually the shitty ones), which isn't fair and often doesn't work. Meanwhile, Germany has a long history of successful rent control, perhaps not coincidentally because it applies universally.