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snoodog  ·  2056 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'Someone To Speak For You': Low-Income Tenants Get Lawyers For Housing Court

This is 90% a result of rent control. As your rental apartment becomes an asset as long as prices go up and you don’t move. If you eliminated rent control then the numbers of cases would go down a lot and they would only need to go after truly bad landlords as opposed to people trying to get rid of below market renters that are locked in under legacy contracts