Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. He has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado, and was the economist for the Colorado Division of Housing from 2009 to 2014. He is the author of Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre.
Colorado outlawed rent control in 1981, now Democrat legislators want to repeal that law and allow local governments to impose any kind of rent control they like.
Economist and political scientist Ryan McMaken, communications director at the U.S.-based Mises Institute, said that while controls may be designed for national security, they were nevertheless a cause for skepticism.
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“Everyone who’s studied it empirically can see that it reduces the number of units actually available. Rent control is anti-poor person.”
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