New York City’s Rent Control Laws Are Erasing Property Rights and Worsening Housing Supply

Amy Swearer, The Heritage Foundation, argues in The Daily Signal that New York City's recently amended rent-stabilization laws "make the city’s affordable housing problem significantly worse, proving economist Assar Lindbeck’s [IFN] point that “next to bombing, rent control seems in many cases to be the most efficient technique so far known for destroying cities.”