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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Challenging what we think we know about rent control

    Proposition 10 would allow California cities and counties to expand rent control. But there’s a lot of disagreement over whether stronger rent control would help or hurt LA’s housing crisis.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Oct 10, 2018 • 1 min read

    Proposition 10 would allow California cities and counties to expand rent control. But there’s a lot of disagreement over whether stronger rent control would help or hurt LA’s housing crisis. Today, USC researchers published a new study that challenges conventional wisdom about rent control.

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    2 of 4
    MacArthur ‘Genius’ Vijay Gupta on trauma, choices, and excellence
    1. 0:00California DMV wrongly registers more than 1500 people to vote
    2. 7:12Challenging what we think we know about rent controlYou’re reading this
    3. 17:32Pasadena museum highlights California women artists, and MOCA gets a new chairwoman
    4. 25:49MacArthur ‘Genius’ Vijay Gupta on a traumatic childhood and finally being ‘seen’
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