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Rent Control Backfiring Against California Renters

Rent Control Backfiring Against California Renters
An apartment complex in downtown Los Angeles at Eighth street and Grand Avenue in Los Angeles, Calif., on Aug. 6, 2020. Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/TNS
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If you’re a renter you well could get hit with much higher rent—after already paying a lot more the past decade. The culprit is California rent control laws. That’s because rent control always backfires, constricting the rental market and in the end increasing prices for most people.

John Seiler
John Seiler
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John Seiler is a veteran California opinion writer. Mr. Seiler has written editorials for The Orange County Register for almost 30 years. He is a U.S. Army veteran and former press secretary for California state Sen. John Moorlach. He blogs at JohnSeiler.Substack.com and his email is [email protected]
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