From Argentina, dramatic evidence that rent control harms renters, restricting the housing supply, and driving up prices. Last year the libertarian administration of Javier Milei ended a federal rent control law and replaced it with nothing, just allowing a free market to function. The results have been all positive for both renters and landlords:
https://reason.com/2025/02/08/the-end-of-rent-control-in-argentina/
Javier Milei ended rent control. Now the Argentine real estate market is coming back to life.
Will people in California and elsewhere learn the lesson, or continue to embrace failed statist policies that have led to unaffordable housing and rampant homelessness?
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))