<story><title>Rent control will make housing shortages worse?</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/09/21/rent-control-will-make-housing-shortages-worse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jayd16</author><text>All these comments and threads fail to understand the purpose of rent control.  It is not to provide the most efficient housing to new residents but to protect existing residents from being priced out.&lt;p&gt;Until there&amp;#x27;s a better solution than &amp;quot;tough shit&amp;quot; these policies will continue to be popular.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>&amp;gt;but to protect existing residents from being priced out.&lt;p&gt;Why is this something we should encourage&amp;#x2F;subsidize?</text></comment>
<story><title>Rent control will make housing shortages worse?</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/09/21/rent-control-will-make-housing-shortages-worse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jayd16</author><text>All these comments and threads fail to understand the purpose of rent control.  It is not to provide the most efficient housing to new residents but to protect existing residents from being priced out.&lt;p&gt;Until there&amp;#x27;s a better solution than &amp;quot;tough shit&amp;quot; these policies will continue to be popular.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chaostheory</author><text>You’re still saying “tough shit”, but only to younger people and families. Mostly seniors and older people are protected.</text></comment>