Promover esperanças acrescidas de que as criminosas leis de controlo de rendas e da defesa dos caloteiros (ao tornar quase impossível a efectivação de um despejo por incumprimento contratual do arrendatário) venham, finalmente, a ser revogadas deixando o mercado - senhorios e arrendatários - funcionar e, dessa forma, permitindo recuperar as zonas velhas das nossas cidades, do ponto de vista urbanístico e do seu (re)povoamento. Por aqui passa a reversão do movimento de expulsão para os subúrbios dos mais jovens e da promoção irresponsável do endividamento das famílias ao forçá-las a ser proprietárias.
O problema não é só nosso. É de todos os países em todas as épocas onde se verificou e ainda se verifica o controlo administrativo das rendas. Veja-se, por exemplo, o caso em São Francisco que Bob Wenzel assinala (realces meus):
In San Francisco, one of the toughest places in the country to find a place to live, more than 31,000 housing units — one of every 12 — now sit vacant, according to recently released census data. That’s the highest vacancy rate in the region, and a 70 percent increase from a decade ago.
The reason? The city's rent control laws that make it difficult to raise rents or evict a tenant.
Increasingly, small-time landlords are just giving up, like one who has left two large apartments on the second and third floors of her building vacant for more than a decade, after a series of tenant difficulties. It’s just not worth the bother, or the risk, of being legally tied to a tenant for decades.
“Vacancy rates are going up because owners have decided to take their units off the market,” said Ross Mirkarimi, a progressive member of the Board of Supervisors. He attributes that response to “peaking frustrations in dealing with the range of laws that protect tenants in San Francisco that make it difficult for small property owners to thrive.”
Perversely, that is hurting the city’s renters as well, as a large percentage of the city’s housing stock is allowed to just sit vacant, driving up rents that newcomers pay for market-rate housing.
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