• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Another way of looking at this is landlords won’t be able to fancy up units and jack up prices which push out low income renters. Also, if landlords can’t make a profit, they will sell which will allow more people to buy rather than be forced to rent. This does decrease the number of rental units in the future which could drive up prices, but it could be combined with a plan to renovate office spaces into apartments to counteract this.

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      10 hours ago

      We want landlords to do this to serve the renters that want to pay more. Office spaces will be renovated to make apartments when rents are high enough to pay for this expense. You don’t need a plan when market forces cause people to make sound business decisions.

      The only thing you need to fix is zoning