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by Chronic51 3706 days ago
Dirty jobs will pay more. But their rent will also increase. Net negative for them.
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Their rent won't increase. It'll decease because they can quit their dirty job and move somewhere nice with low rent but few jobs, like a small town.
It may be possible to control the outcomes of property owner's greed with heavy taxation on non-owner occupied properties? Certainly it wouldn't work to leave rent increases uncontrolled as landlords would then just increase prices (in the UK at least).