“Things like rent control are mainly going to redistribute profits from builders and existing landlords to tenants,” said Paul, who called San Francisco’s own measure a “common-sense approach” for boosting housing affordability.
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Rent Control Is on the Ballot Again. Here’s What to Know
“We can design smart rent control policies to deliver both affordability and stability for renters while also maintaining a healthy market for people to continue building.”
Mark Paul – Proposition 33 Would End State Limits on Rent Control
“Most mainstream economists are taught these theoretical models where perfect competition exists, there’s no such thing as market power, you know where landlords have more power than renters”
Why President Biden’s rent stabilization proposal won’t solve the housing crisis
President Joe Biden proposed legislation on July 16 aimed at implementing nationwide rent stabilization for the next three years, targeting units overseen by landlords with 50 or more units to prevent annual rent increases exceeding 5%.
What Biden’s “Rent Cap” Is, and Isn’t
“We have policies in place that have helped build the middle class through federal support for housing,” Paul says. “However, that federal support for housing is really only applied to the segment of Americans that can afford to own a house.”
Experts Respond To Biden’s Rent Cap Comments
“Biden et. al are finally taking the housing crisis seriously. Going on offense to increase supply AND cap rent increases is precisely the type of intervention we need to drastically improve housing affordability & stability.”
Mark Paul– Colorado’s fossil fuel phase-out is likely to fail without big changes, but supporters still hope it sends a message
Mark Paul, an assistant professor specializing in climate economics at Rutgers University, emphasizes the importance of complementing demand-side policies with supply-side strategies in the fight against climate change.
Departing RealPage Exec’s Flimsy Rant Against Rent Control
Let’s first consider the AER survey and New York study, which were both published over 30 years ago (in 1992 and 1972-89, respectively). As Rutgers economist Mark Paul has written, decades-old theoretical assumptions about rent control are being increasingly challenged by contemporary evidence:
Exxon CEO blames public for failure to fix climate change
For the U.S. to decarbonize in an orderly fashion, “restrictive supply-side policies that curtail fossil fuel extraction and support workers and communities must play a role,” Rutgers Univresity economists Mark Paul and Lina Moe wrote last year.
Ban Fossil Fuels? Readers Had Strong Thoughts.
Mark Paul, an economist at Rutgers University’s Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, wrote that he’s a “huge advocate” of putting a price on carbon, as Ho is, but “we simply need to consider a far broader swath of policy tools to facilitate rapid decarbonization.
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