Rents reach 'insane' levels across U.S. with no end in sight

Problems are piling up, not a good sign. What is this administration planning to do to curb the inflation?

Problems are piling up, not a good sign. What is this administration planning to do to curb the inflation?

At this present time, nothing.

The right: government shouldn't be allowed to make regulations in the market.

The government: OK.

Landlords: lol just gonna ruthlessly raise rents

The right: This is the government's fault.

Increase the housing supply!

City policies in the US favor NIMBYs and create artificial scarcity.

There’s such a fire shortage of land in America, right?

…dire shortage

The right: government shouldn't be allowed to make regulations in the market.

The government: OK.

Landlords: lol just gonna ruthlessly raise rents

The right: This is the government's fault.

It kinda is though. It is the government that set the regulations that limited building new housing, including zoning vast areas of land for only single family houses. The liberal cities are actually more guilty of stopping new developments and enforcing single family zoning laws which reduced supply for decades.