The Politics of Housing

LZ Granderson: It's difficult sometimes to meet an urge liberals and progressives to connect the dots. The rent control laws, by taking a huge supply off the market, are beneficial to the landlords who are currently operating buildings that aren't affected by rent control,. They can charge more. In addition, further, the prohibitions on building create a elite oligarchy within the housing industry. Those people have special connections in government who can create a few affordable units Who can build because they know how to deal with the political atmosphere? LZ: I guess that pretty much exhausts my point there, Tom. What else were you going to say?