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by vasco 1329 days ago
Every economist knows price caps never worked and yet you're being downvoted for stating a plain fact. Price controls only make it so that nobody can buy the thing in the first place by exhausting supply. It's way better to let the thing be sold at whatever price it has than to just exhaust it. In this case it means property sits empty which is the worst possible outcome.