Send Your Questions: Newsmakers TV Hosts Two UCSB All-Stars to Talk City's Rent Regulation Push
As Santa Barbara City Hall crafts new restrictions on rent increases, economist Peter Rupert and sociologist Rich Appelbaum bring conflicting views on how regulation will impact the housing market.
Amid the profusion of public comment about Santa Barbara’s ongoing effort to regulate landlord-tenant relations, the City Hall testimony of two prominent academics has been notably thoughtful, well-informed — and utterly in conflict.
Now Rich Appelbaum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in UCSB’s Department of Sociology, and Professor of Economics Peter Rupert, who runs the university’s Economic Forecast Project, have accepted our invitation for a joint appearance on this week’s edition of Newsmakers TV, to hash out the city’s most polarized policy and political issue.
Before we record the program on Thursday, we invite our loyal readers and viewers to send us your questions about the controversy.
With appreciation for your interest and support, we’ll seek to include your inquiries in a civil conversation that explores the cross-current complexities of this very consequential rights-in-conflict civic matter.
Please send questions to: newsmakerswithjr@gmail.com
Thanks.
Images: Sign (tellmeaboutitblog.com; above (L) Peter Rupert (TSEgold.com; (R) Rich Appelbaum (researchgate.net).
Correction: In early edition of this newsletter, Rich Appelbaum’s last name was misspelled. We apologize for the error.
Ok. A few Questions for both guests.
1) If rent control is so good for the economy, why have so many districts abandoned it. Like Berkeley after 20 years of rent control that lead to a decline in upkeep and a decline in property values.
2) What about the takings clause of our constitution. And what about property rights?
Keeping in mind the communist manifesto’s first ‘tenant’
(no pun) is the abolition of private property rights?
3). More to come. Thx tc