Outside the Stuyvesant Town apartment complex, he vowed to go to Albany and lobby for the repeal of a law that effectively took control of rent regulation out of the city's hands.
"The control of rent needs to be back on the agenda".
While no overall study of the effects of the end of controls on rents has been made, a survey by a leading landlord in Cambridge found that rents for his company's formerly controlled apartments have doubled.
In Russia and China they are closely tied to systemic corruption and the control of economic rents, which tends to make them hostile to rebalancing and the greater respect for the rule of law that would come with it.
The fight dates back to 2006, when Ms. Holzer sought to regain control of two rent-stabilized apartments that had been carved out of a former grocery at 161 Stanton Street, a 25-foot-wide apartment building on the newly fashionable Lower East Side.
In attractive central districts (the kinds of places where journalists who write about out-of-control rents tend to want to live) prices have risen much faster.There is already a law in place that limits rent increases under an existing lease, based on local housing costs.
In addition, rent caps to limit out-of-control rents, mansion taxes and higher stamp duty for the wealthiest would be simple reforms that have a dramatic impact on housing.
The best remaining option for Bute was to control the voting in Cardiff, but even here he had to choose his candidate carefully and apply careful financial pressure through his control of leases and rents to ensure their election.
New apartment buildings aren't subject to rent control, but the fact of rent control has two effects: First, it's discouraged people from building new apartments because they (quite rationally) fear that the city will eventually impose controls.
They must meet their responsibilities out of it, and take control of their finances: rent, power, council tax, food, clothing.
