• acargitz
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    Montreal had rent control for a long time and renting only became a problem when the bubblification of real estate got imported to Quebec from the rest of Canada.

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      Renting only became a problem when it became a problem elsewhere… oh… well then it looks like it didn’t work well did it.

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        The Canadian rental market, famously a victim of rent control.

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          Who said anything about the Canadian market having tried rent control?

          Plenty of other places have tried and failed at it though.