Comment by bigmattystyles

I feel the same way about rent control. It's not fair for society at large to make property owners eat the cost or the lost potential income alone. I am aggressively pro rent control and pro eviction moratorium during the pandemic, but I am for a (progressive) tax to fund these programs. It's just unfair to make yourself feel good by supporting these programs when you don't have any skin in the game. I'm not naïve though, I know that if you raise taxes to fund these programs as a society as opposed to a property owner having to fund it alone, those programs will lose their popularity. This is a case where most people's support for these programs is literally all talk. And yes, some property owners are scum and/or large corporations and people will game the system. But then you address that with oversight with teeth.