I was invited on Joe Catenacci’s radio show to discuss the plans for national rent control to cap the prices of rents across the country. What would this mean for ordinary renters? Why has rent control failed so spectacularly in places like California and New York? Here’s why I believe national rent control would harm more than help every American.
Yaël Ossowski is a journalist, writer, and consumer advocate. His writings and interviews have appeared in newspapers, magazines, and online outlets across the world in multiple languages.
He is the founder and editor of Devolution Review and deputy director at the Consumer Choice Center. He was previously a national investigative reporter at Watchdog.org.
He has a Master’s Degree in Philosophy, Politics, Economics (PPE) from the CEVRO Institute in Prague, and a Bachelor's in Political Science from Concordia University, Montreal. He currently splits his time between Vienna, Austria and Charlotte, North Carolina.