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The most important way to hold down rents is to let housing be built.

Fewer people would do the trick also. And it would preserve air quality, water supplies, area of land needed for agriculture, and many other measures.

Wrt to the article, building more wouldn't work anyway so long as landlords follow the company's advice. They'd just let all those units sit empty,

Uh, building more would certainly work, as it would make those empty units stand empty for longer, forcing the owners to lower rent. That's... how it works.

Well, more units would put some economic pressure, but presumably landlords wouldn't buy those buildings if they have pressure already. So those buildings would go condo, and maybe some renters would step up to be owners.

That's more pressure on condo prices than on rents.

Cartels derail schoolbook supply and demand ideas.

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