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> new tenants pay way higher prices and have to compete for every available unit with dozens of other potential tenants.

Rent control isn't the cause of that, though, it's lack of housing supply to meet demand. If there was no rent control, competition would be just as fierce, and prices still high.



They are not independent. Rent control discourages housing development.




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