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Capricorn2481 | on: Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents
That's a pretty generous interpretation that requires you to believe rent control and building housing are diametrically opposed to each other.
hunterpayne | parent
rent control dramatically decreases the incentives to build and in many cases makes it impossible (read uneconomic) to do so