Real-world lesson: Ending rent control boosts housing supply

Real-world lesson: Ending rent control boosts housing supply

SACRAMENTO – It should go without saying, but the United States became the world’s most-prosperous large nation by generally allowing the market economy to work. By contrast, Argentina has remained a poor backwater thanks in part to its far-reaching price controls. So it’s ironic that “free-market” America needs to learn a key economic lesson from…