A Critique of the Legal and Philosophical Case for Rent Control英文文献.pdfVIP

A Critique of the Legal and Philosophical Case for Rent Control* Walter Block ABSTRACT. Rent control is an economic abomi- that controls dissipate the wealth of the owners nation. It diverts investments away from residential of residential rental units. But it is the rare rent units, it leads to their deterioration, it is respon- tenant who actually gains thereby.2 Certainly this sible for urban decay such as in the South Bronx, it does not apply to the renter who is frozen out does not help poor tenants, it is a horrendous means of the controlled sector, and must avail himself of income redistribution. Yet this economic regula- of what is available in the newer uncontrolled tion is beloved of intellectuals (hot beds of pro rent 3 area. Nor does it hold true for the tenant, control sentiment are Berkeley, Ann Arbor and such as in the South Bronx, who sees the Cambridge) particularly in the legal and philosoph- ical communities. The present article is dedicated to services supplied by his unit deteriorate to the an exploration and rejection of the arguments on low level of this rent, and even below. No, behalf of rent control which emanate from this source. gains go only to the relatively rare tenant in a good neighborhood, located in a high rise with KEY WORDS: economic efficiency, equity, housing, many vacancy decontrols (so that the landlord has rent cont