https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2022/04/27/rent-control-columbus-could-make-ballot-affordable-housing/9537505002/

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The state legislature needs to pass legislation prohibiting rent control.

https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/columbus/coalition-wants-rent-control-on-ballot/


Pretty good article here.

If this gets on the ballot, Columbus is FUH-UCKED...

Ugh this shit is sickining. yay my tenant let some homeless "family" move in. Haven't paid rent and took over 3 months to evict.
Yeah that won't take any time at all to make up for not only the lost profits ( miniscule as they are about $$100 per month after all expenses ) and the cost to turn it.

Paging 1851 center for constitutional law. 1851 to the white courtesy phone.
https://ohioconstitution.org/

@Leisure_Shoot  I think cbus is already there based on the Columbus cops I know.   That being said rent control is BS no matter where it is, I get the intent, but its still not a good idea.

If the state doesn't restrict this, it will be very bad overall.

Columbus is trending towards horrible, to likes every other large city. American urban/metro/liberal culture is garbage, and will destroy this one great nation. (Which is what it is obviously designed to do to lead to Globalism)

I have always lived rural.

I have heard of rent control but why is it bad?

If you own an item, and the government tells you what you can charge to rent it, how do you think that will work out long term?
Fuck the statist fucks!

Search for "Thomas Sowell rent control" and you'll find videos of him talking about it.  He's not the only economist critical of rent control.  As a matter of fact, the one thing all professional economists agree on is that rent control does not work.

The same patterns happen all around the world.

Less new housing is built and old housing wears out, eventually cities are left with dilapidated homes.

Politicians will step in and say things such as "We want to protect the poor with rent control, the rich don't need to be protected from rent increases".  Luxury housing and economical housing use many of the same materials and labor so more luxury housing is built and less economical housing is built.

For another, a family in rent-controlled properties will stay in larger properties even after the kids move out for many years.  This keeps new families out of the larger property.

Rent control doesn't generally apply to commercial property, so more commercial properties will be built and less economical housing is built.

There are always secondary effects that always eventually bite you in the ass.

If passed, there will simply be fewer and fewer landlords; people willing to invest in rental property. Sooner rather than later the citizenry will get what they vote for.

Ohio is a pretty conservative State (generally speaking). Columbus is turning into a wasteland and will soon look like Seattle or Portland.