The campaign for rent controls starts

Stuff reports:

Tenancy unions, maximum annual increases and a temporary rent freeze. These are some of the options the Green Party is looking at for rent controls.

We had a temporary rent freeze once – it was a disaster.

Why only freeze ? Why not groceries? Petrol? Electricity?

Economists are generally but not uniformly opposed to rent controls, arguing they will reduce the overall supply of . An American survey of economists in 2012 found 95 per cent opposed them. 

This is what you call the is settled. If 95% of climate scientists says greenhouse gases increase , then we regard the science as settled.

So if 95% of economists say rent controls are a bad idea and decrease housing supply, we should also regard the science as settled. Maybe we should call the Greens science deniers?

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