Glen Tenney's Online Resources
Topic: Rent Controls 


 

How Rent Control Drives out Affordable Housing

By William Tucker

(5 pages, 1997)

Applications to Rent Controls

By George Reisman

This link takes the reader to Reisman’s massive (1100+ pages) treatise on economics. His discussion of price controls in general – which are well worth reading – begins in chapter 7 which starts on page 219. His application of the general principles of price controls specifically to rent controls begins on page 249, and goes for about 5 pages. Reisman’s discussion of rent controls is one of the most comprehensive around. One of the interesting insights is the idea that rent controls actually increase the price of housing generally.

A Critique of the Legal and Philosophical Case for Rent Control

By Walter Block

(15 pages, 2002)

The Roots of the Housing Shortage

By Gene Callahan

(2 Pages, 2003)

Professor Modigliani on Price Controls: The Baleful Influence of the Perfectly Competitive Model

By Walter Block

(4 pages, 1995)

Rent Control: An Economic Abomination

By Walter Block

In an interesting twist, Block reasons that controlling the prices of everything except rent would cause more capital to flow into rental units, bringing the prices down. (10 pages, 1998)

Rent Control: A Case Study of British Columbia

By Walter Block

(5 pages, 1994)

Three Fallacies of Rent Control

By Robert Matemarco

(3 pages, 1997)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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