Rent control and Euclidean zoning have long been tools used by cities to segregate the poor—both white and Black—away from the neighborhoods of the bourgeoisie, teachers, academics, and politicians, who consider themselves deserving of separation from the masses. Rent control has allowed private property to become state-regulated, benefiting existing tenants while discouraging new development, thusContinue reading “Homelessness and Housing Shortages: The Consequences of Rent Control, Zoning, Building Codes, and Economic Decline”