--72.188.xxx.xxx

If it makes you money, good. If it doesn’t, find the loopholes. --24.152.xxx.xx

I'm not sure I buy the premise of the article. Rising rents are reaction to other things, not the cause of inflation. Someone is floating a new agenda to further scapegoat landlords and the NYT was happy to go along. --72.188.xxx.xxx

Is anything they have been doing legal? --73.120.xx.xxx

Again, us evil landlords are the root cause! Not a chance. --172.56.xx.xxx

I would expect any new proposed rental construction to be moved to the suburbs. --174.53.xxx.xxx

But yeah. Those pesky landlords... ;) --137.118.xx.xxx

Deanna, I asked my 5 year old this morning if he wanted oatmeal or eggs for breakfast. He said eggs. I said OK, go outside and find one. He went outside and a few minutes later he came in with three. --174.198.xx.xxx

NY Times has it backwards (aka WRONG) as usual. INFLATION is fueling rising rents (as is the idiotic moratoriums) --174.208.x.xxx

I don't suppose skyrocketing RE prices could possibly have anything to do with it. If they want to pin blame, they should look at Black Rock and all the other big organizations that are snapping up all the single family homes across the country. --73.25.xx.xxx

Not to mention the property tax and insurance increases that go hand-in-hand with skyrocketing RE prices. --107.141.xx.xxx

Rising rents is a consequence of inflation, not its cause. The person who wrote that is an idiot. --107.141.xx.xxx

In my area rents are rising because branches of government are increasing the cost of business - property tax increase 19 percent in December with nothing at all to show, registration now mandatory to get court case file - 450 per year with little in return. --76.188.xxx.xxx

Heard that the vaccine moratorium could result in Chicago's police force dropping by half the day after the moratorium deadline. They deserve to get everything they voted for. --108.69.xxx.xxx

Not quite as good as going out the back door... but the next best thing. ;) --137.118.xx.xxx

The best spin doctors you can get working for these outlets next to Jen Psaki. --73.25.xx.xxx

J is correct. JB: it has been shown many many times that what people think will exacerbate inflationary as well as deflationary spirals. --107.77.xxx.xxx

JB, During the Obama years it was "why (insert terrible economic circumstance) is GOOD! --72.231.xxx.xx

It is true that the public's reactions to inflation could intensify the problem. Similar to hoarding of store items duevto the pandemic. But the original inflation appears to have been started by govt policies. --72.188.xxx.xxx

Get up to market rate, I predict we are looking at more rent control. --76.178.xxx.xxx

Isn't it interesting that they can impose "rent control", but the government doesn't put controls on the cost of food, clothing, or even oil? --72.188.xxx.xxx

methinks Oregon that increasing fuel & toilet paper prices are the most obvious & painful results of inflation....rents are increasing bc of increasing demand whereas gas & tp prices result of decreased supply. --107.77.xxx.xxx