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The Effects of Rent Control Expansion on Tenants, Landlords, and Inequality

The quasi-experimental study found lower mobility and displacement among incumbent tenants affected by San Francisco's 1994 rent-control expansion, while treated landlords reduced rental supply by 15 percent. Its estimates concern that specific policy design and population.

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Rebecca Diamond, Tim McQuade, and Franklin Qian, American Economic Review 109(9), 3365-3394 (2019), abstract and study of San Francisco's 1994 expansion.

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The quasi-experimental study found lower mobility and displacement among incumbent tenants affected by San Francisco's 1994 rent-control expansion, while treated landlords reduced rental supply by 15 percent. Its estimates concern that specific policy design and population.

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