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Landlord Forced To Raise Rent Due To Thinking Of Bigger Number (www.theonion.com)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I suspect that if the government were to implement UBI, this would be a concern they thought of and would have things within the same breath as the UBI itself to address it. It only comes up every single time UBI is mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Rent control is brought up as the solution. If it was that easy to implement, government could do it right now too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

It is easy to implement, it's hard to enforce because not everyone is going to be forthcoming. My city is rent controlled, passed by a healthy margin, but not all landlords are self reporting. The protections still stand, renters needing to present to the renters department at city hall.

But your point stands in more conservative areas which would be inundated with campaign donations, ads, and just overall lack of faith in functioning government.