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To: TimF who wrote (205302)	10/6/2004 2:00:43 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574752

Rent control and at least the strictest forms of usury laws do not usually help the poor. The main effect of rent control that forces rents below market rates is to reduce the supply of housing. A secondary effect is to reduce the maintaince of housing covered by rent control. Most usury laws do help the poor. And rent control laws were intended to help the poor. Unfortunately, its been shown that over the long haul they do not work. That fact, however, does not change my original point. Certain laws were put into place because the rich were gouging/taking advantage of the poor.