Talk:Rent regulation in New York

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A fact from Rent regulation in New York appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 October 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the rent control program in New York State is America's longest-running?

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Regarding: "...New York City the only large city in the United States that has strong rent control laws." Isn't Washington, DC, a large city? It also has rent control. 63.242.163.109 (talk) 19:00, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This article should be re-named "Rent Regulation in New York," since apartments under actual rent control are now a very small percentage of both total apartments in NYC and NYC apartments under regulation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.73.84.239 (talk) 23:33, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"The legislation, if passed..." Well, was it passed in 2009 or wasn't it? It is 2011 now so we ought to know. 69.174.171.59 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 01:06, 12 August 2011 (UTC).[reply]

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New York is not the only large city with strong rent control

... so I removed that sentence. San Francisco also has strong rent regulations. FWIW that assertion wasn't supported by the citation either--it seems to stem from a non-authoritative quoted statement within the referenced news article, not from the reported content. --Threephi (talk) 05:41, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Effects

I believe there should be a section in this page for the effects of rent control. New York City has the highest number of homeless people in the United States because prices cannot fluctuate to represent the true supply to demand aspect. There currently is a shortage of housing in New York City caused by the artificially low prices. These artificially low prices can't reflect the reality that the demand is high (more people are seeking housing) while the supply (amount of housing landlords are willing to rent out) is low because increasing the supply would not be profitable. In a free market, this would cause an increase in rent prices to force people to live within their housing needs so that there would be more housing available for others who are in need of housing. Brett S L71 (talk) 18:39, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You're basically summarizing an analysis that is highly contested. How is Wikipedia supposed to decide to favor this particular ideology in this dispute over others? If you have reputable pundits who make this argument, it can be described in the article along with in-text attribution of whose opinion you're describing. But it's not fact. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 01:09, 20 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Libertarian logic can be confusing for the layman. Let us assume:

Tenants x only just afford their rent ($V). Homeless y cannot afford most rents.

Landlord p is free now to increase x's rents by 15%. Tenants x have to leave. To pay higher rents elsewhere.

How does this mean homeless y can now move in paying the higher rents ($V + 15%) ?

What am I missing ? Claverhouse (talk) 08:06, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Housingnyc.com domain is taken over

housingnyc.com domain is apparently taken over by potentially malicious parties, and now redirects to various other potentially malicious websites. It redirected me to a phishing site in one instance. Please change all references to housingnyc.com to their corresponding archive urls. I am removing the original urls so people don't get redirected to malicious websites. EdLeMa (talk) 17:41, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have marked the url as usurped in all references to housingnyc.com. The original url is left intact in source. EdLeMa (talk) 18:06, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Paragraph 4 - biased opinion based information

Paragraph 4 should be removed or heavily edited 2600:4040:7C47:4D00:2DBC:F295:A0A2:E4CA (talk) 17:56, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]