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Rent controlled: How Grandma Pays the Blitzkrieg Rent
Jeffrey Hill | Fri, Dec 28th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: jeffrey hill, new york city, 1960s, 1970s, war emergency tenant protection act, metcouncil.net, rent control, cato institute | 4
It’s every angry teenager’s dream to move to New York City. Watching Annie Hall, listening to the Ramones, buying a cordoruy suit ... it’s all about romance until they pick up a free Apartment shopper’s guide and find out that it costs an average of 2000 dollars to rent a closet with bad wiring and a malfunctioning water heater. What happened to the dream of living shoulder-to-shoulder with America’s undiscovered twenty-somethings? What about all those movies where shaggy-haired poets…
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