Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent article in The Progressive branded opponents of rent control "the real-estate industry, right-wing think tanks and conservatives...
Well my liberal credentials are impeccable, and I still think rent control is stupid...
...article defended the rich who ride the rent control gravy train by saying that "[P]rograms that serve only the poor are demeaning...[and] undercut support for the program itself...
...society as wealthy as ours has a responsibility to see that no one goes without affordable housing. In this sense, advocates of rent control are pursuing a noble goal. Unfortunately, they've chosen about the most inefficient means possible to get there...
Liberals ought to be fighting against rent control and in favor of a rational system of providing low-income housing, be it public housing construction, rent subsidies or housing vouchers...