I am sick of New Yorkers complaining about high rents

[Boshembechle]

That city has the most extensive rent control program in the entire nation, and these twits don't realize that it discourages renters and builders from constructing new housing units, and even encourages renters to convert spaces into offices.

[Ronin Truth]

And many of them are sick of high rents.

[Boshembechle]

And many of them are sick of high rents.But they will defend rent control till they die.

[Carlybee]

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[Ronin Truth]

But they will defend rent control till they die.

Probably because they fear, rightly or not, that without rent control the rents would be even higher.

[CaptUSA]

Oh for crying out...

One minute you're all about price controls and the next you're against them?! Hows 'bout a little consistency?

Why do I think this thread is a feeble set up for something???

[Boshembechle]

Probably because they fear, rightly or not, that without rent control the rents would be even higher.Only in the short term. Although, I admit that zoning laws also drive up rents since they restrict areas where units can be built.

[RJB]

I'm sick of Boshembechle complaining... Period. :)

[BucksforPaul]

That city has the most extensive rent control program in the entire nation, and these twits don't realize that it discourages renters and builders from constructing new housing units, and even encourages renters to convert spaces into offices.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg5SwyTvAHw

[dannno]

I'm not sure I'd want to live there if it was free.

[RJB]

Here's the real reason rent is so high.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBy_ppG4hY

[tod evans]

I am sick of New Yorkers

Ya' got part of it right....

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

I'm sick of Boshembechle

That part of it is right too. Actually, Bomb Breath, you're sort of amusing, in a I'm really bored and even find you amusing sort of way.

[angelatc]

That city has the most extensive rent control program in the entire nation, and these twits don't realize that it discourages renters and builders from constructing new housing units, and even encourages renters to convert spaces into offices.

Wait - don't you think that everybody has the right to live in Manhattan no matter how much it costs?

[fr33]

That city has the most extensive rent control program in the entire nation, and these twits don't realize that it discourages renters and builders from constructing new housing units, and even encourages renters to convert spaces into offices.

From my point of view, living in New York is like living in a fancy prison so it wouldn't surprise me if many of it's residents suffer from both Stockholm Syndrome and cognitive dissonance. Anyways, a population with such a majority that fears the concept of defending themselves and supports the theory of gun control deserves what they get. I suggest that the rational people move the hell out of that shithole.

[Matt Collins]

Exactly.... anyone who lives in a place like that deserves what they get.

[Unregistered]

Exactly.... anyone who lives in a place like that deserves what they get.

That's just stupid. Not everyone in New York supports tyranny. This is jut a libertarian modified version of "love it or leave it."

[pcosmar]

I am sick of trolls that are too well fed.

Starve them and let them die.

[Orion_Simerl]

Why is that something that people should be concerned with, already New York has more vacant properties than there are homeless people, so what purpose does it serve to build more properties when you cannot fill the vacant ones? Certainly they will anyway in efforts to turn a profit on redundant meaningless production but again it serves no true purpose.