Reining in rent control.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | v26 |
| Issue | n2 |
| Published | 1994-06-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Nick Gillespie |
The plain facts may undermine a divisive practice.
IMAGINE NOT BEING ABLE TO LEGALLY move your family into a house you own. That's what happened to a rental-property owner in Santa Monica, California. And it's one of the reasons why the Pacific Legal Foundation, a free-enterprise public-interest law firm, and the California Apartment Association, a landlord group, are taking rent control to court.
The PLF's legal strategy is to show that rent control simultaneously diminishes an owner's rights while failing to advance a governmental interest. In the late 1970s, Santa...
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