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> Rent control is the quickest way to turn one of America's best cities into vast slum.

NYC has rent control, and it's hardly a vast slum.

And as a counter-dynamic, overbuilding and its associated crime rate increase is another way to turn a city into a slum. Few things breed crime like abandoned housing.

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NYC was a vast slum during a time when rent control, public housing, and social policy were a much bigger deal than they are now.

New York is able to build up, which helps. But overall, the NYC rent control is considered a failure by those who it is intended to help.

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