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Let's keep it real: Sen. Jamie Pedersen (D-Seattle) says @cmkshama has turned Olympia against repealing the state #RentControlBan, but he didn't really support #RentControl in the first place and endorsed Egan Orion... Smells like campaign spin. https://crosscut.com/2019/10/history-against-her-kshama-sawant-fights-her-political-life
"My thoughts about rent control are that it's really terrible failed policy," Sen. Pedersen said last year. "It tends to depress the creation of new housing stock."
Does this sound like somebody lifting a finger to repeal the ban? (See 5min) #RentControl http://www.seattlechannel.org/misc-video?videoid=x86956
Does this sound like somebody lifting a finger to repeal the ban? (See 5min) #RentControl http://www.seattlechannel.org/misc-video?videoid=x86956
We've written about how the empirical research on #RentControl is often misrepresented. https://www.theurbanist.org/2019/08/05/the-case-for-rent-control/
And the public conversation tends to center landlords rather than tenants struggling to make it as rents skyrocket. Sen. Pedersen is part of that tradition. #RentControl #TenantVoice https://www.theurbanist.org/2019/09/27/understanding-rent-control-politics/
