[sam-s]

I am surprised no one mentions the elephant in the room - rent control.

It makes it harder to discover the true rent (one has to pay a large lump sum to the previous tenant to get a rent-controlled apartment) and it discourages rental housing construction.

Do you really think that these effects are best observable indirectly, as rent and construction?!

[wildrhythms]

Why is your solution to abolish rent control rather than propose a public housing solution?