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rent control- price ceilings

Rent Control and Price Ceilings

***** essay will introduce the topic of rent control and price ceilings to the reader. The paper is divided into three parts: First, we will introduce the topic to ***** *****, laying out the relevant details of the law, when it was enacted, how ***** works, what it was designed to accomplish, and any other pertinent information ***** assist the reader in underst*****ing the policy in question. Secondly, we will try to analyze the *****, giving arguments both in its favor and against it. Finally, we will present the conclusions of this paper together with our own personal view on the matter. Moreover, we will try to give suggestions for ***** modification of the policy in order for it ***** become more effective.

In order to present the topic to the *****, we will try to define the main terms. In a free market, the demand and ***** supply tend towards what it is called 'the market equilibrium', that is ***** a balance point. Because in some cases this thing does not happen, due to different reasons, the state decides to impose a floor price or a ceiling *****, me*****ning ***** the ***** will impose through a law or ***** regulating act a minimum ***** m*****ximum price of a good. "Rent control, like *****ll other government-m*****ated price controls, is a law placing a m*****ximum price, or a 'rent ceiling,' on what landlords may charge tenants." Th***** ***** has its roots in the years after World War I when "rents were 'controlled' through the efforts of local rent anti-pr*****iteering committees and public pressure." That is, between 1919 and 1924 some cities and states adopted measures such as "rent ***** eviction control laws." The next step was ***** adoption of modern rent control after the Second ***** War and "following Richard Nixon's 1971 wage ***** price controls."

***** the United States, *****re are five states ***** rent control, thirty-five states that preempt rent control and eleven states with no ***** control or preempt rent *****. The five states with rent control *****: California, District of Columbia, Maryl*****, New York and New Jersey. Each ***** these states has different laws regulating rent *****, but they all cover the same issues.

Probably the most important one is ***** York where The Office of Rent Admin*****tration is accountable for "regulating rents in approximately 1.2 million privately *****ed rental un***** statewide under four *****: ***** Emergency Hous*****g Rent Control Law, the Local Emergency Tenant ***** Act, the Rent Stabilization Law, and the Emergency Tenants Protection Act (ETPA)." These ***** laws are the foundation of the rent regulation systems commonly known as rent control ***** rent stabilization.

The Emergency Housing Rent Control Law (State Rent *****) w***** initi*****y adopted in 1946 and modified through***** ***** *****. "The Local Emergency Hous*****g Rent Control Act (City Rent Control) transferred the administration of rent control from the state government to the New ***** City government." *****, the Rent Stabilization Law through