Schafer argues that when government caps the price of something, the market looks first at other markets where the expected rate of return on an investment is not artificially capped. Capital sometimes flows out of the rent-controlled markets, with property owners cutting maintenance budgets, putting off capital improvements, and investing elsewhere.
In Massachusetts, MIT economists analyzed what happened in Cambridge when rent controls were lifted, and the result was a flurry of renovation and investment.
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