A rent-control study found home values fell 5% — and the thread can't agree if that's the bad news (rhawa.org)
The paper studies who gains and loses from rent control by tracking St. Paul property values after its 2021 ordinance. The headline finding: values fell 4.4–5.8% in nine months, a hit it attributes to lost landlord and homeowner wealth.
Commenters punctured the setup. The data window is nine months of pandemic-and-unrest 2021; the study dropped Minneapolis as a control on what one reader called a 'bullshit reason'; and the host, RHAWA, is a landlord lobbying group.
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