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> Paris’s poor struggle to find decent homes

26 July 2005, 20:06

Supply always meets demand (for a price). If there is a housing shortage in Paris, it is almost certainly the fault of bad government policy. In NYC, there is a housing shortage caused by government-imposed "rent control", which artificially sets prices below market value. Whenever an asset is artificially priced below market value, it vanishes. It happens every time. It’s entirely predictable.

The French should throw off their socialist shackles and let people be people. No wonder the high-rise slums into which the French herd economic refugees have become cesspools of jihad ideology. You’re penned into a subsidized slum, put on the dole, and forbidden to work. What else are you going to do with your day?