2. Suppose that college students in your town persuaded the town council to enact a law setting...

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2. Suppose that college students in your town persuaded the town council to enact a law setting the maximum price for rental housing at $400 per month. Will this help or hurt college students who rent housing? In your answer, address how this price ceiling will affect

(a) the quality of rental housing;

(b) the amount of rental housing available;

(c) the incentive of landlords to maintain their properties;

(d) the amount of racial, gender, and other types of discrimination in the local rental housing market;

(e) the ease with which students will be able to find housing; and, finally, (f)

whether a black market for housing would develop.

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Macroeconomics Private And Public Choice

ISBN: 9781111970628

14th Edition

Authors: James D. Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, Russell S. Sobel, David A. Macpherson

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