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The War For The Soul Of Our Movement (Ep. 2546)
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Mamdani's Rent Freeze and the Economics of Rent Control
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Mamdani's rent freeze is Bongino's real-world case study in applied socialist economics. The rent guidelines board froze rent for over 2 million New Yorkers in rent-stabilized apartments. Bongino walks through the mechanics: a landlord who cannot profit from an apartment will not rent it. Supply falls. Demand rises because below-market rents attract more applicants than there are units. Black markets emerge through subletting. Landlords stop maintaining properties because they cannot afford to invest in units that lose money. [1] — Dan Bongino "When government freezes rent, landlords stop investing in buildings they can't profit from, supply shrinks, demand surges, and black market…" 56:20 He calls rent control 'one of the most economically debunked fallacies in human history' and compares it to gun control in one key respect: criminals ignore gun laws the way landlords work around rent laws. Trump, he says, understands this because he lived through the Dinkins/Koch/Lindsay era of New York's collapse.
When government freezes rent, landlords stop investing in buildings they can't profit from, supply shrinks, demand surges, and black markets emerge. Mamdani froze rent for 2 million New Yorkers. The predictable result is less housing, not more.
Zohran Mamdani's Independent Rent Guidelines Board froze rent for more than 2 million New Yorkers living in rent-stabilized apartments.
Dan Bongino recalled that when President Trump appeared on his show before the last presidential election, the episode drew approximately 300,000 live streamers simultaneously.
