Economists Agree: Biden's Rent Control Idea Would Lead to Housing Shortages, Higher Prices

Economists are railing against President Joe Biden's plan to impose rent controls on nearly half of the nation's rental market as a ham-fisted election year ploy that would disincentivize building new housing and make it more difficult for Americans already struggling to pay their rent.

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Your Tax Dollars Pay For Millionaire Democrats' Swanky D.C. Apartments

Taxpayers are funding luxury housing accommodations for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and over 200 other members of Congress, many of whom boast net worths over $1 million.

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Warnock's Church Resumes Evictions From Low-Income Apartment Building as It Enriches the Senator

With Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) safe and secure in the Senate for the next six years, his church is back to doing what it does best: enriching its pastor and evicting residents of its low-income apartment building.

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Chicago Mayor Eyes $25 Million Plan To Cover Rent for Illegal Immigrants

Chicago's new far-left mayor Brandon Johnson is working to implement a $25 million program that would subsidize rent costs for illegal immigrants, a plan that comes as Johnson's liberal allies press him to cut funding for other priorities such as policing.

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DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene Bemoans Rising Housing Costs While Profiting From Rent Hikes

Democratic congresswoman Suzan DelBene (Wash.) has bemoaned rising rents and built a reputation as an advocate of federal housing subsidies. But the newly-minted chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has also turned a tidy profit on a low-income apartment building subsidized by the same policies she supports in Washington.

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Warnock’s Church Tapped One of the Nation’s Leading Eviction Filers To Manage Low-Income Apartment

Few corporate landlords sought to evict more residents in 2021 than the company Sen. Raphael Warnock’s (D., Ga.) church partnered with to manage its low-income apartment building. Columbia Residential manages 49 apartments in the Atlanta area, including Columbia Tower at MLK Village, a low-income apartment building owned by Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Warnock serves as […]

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Under Scrutiny, Warnock Claims Without Evidence Walker Is Exploiting the People Facing Eviction From Ebenezer Baptist Church’s Low-Income Apartment

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) claimed without evidence on Tuesday that his Republican opponent, Herschel Walker, is trying to "exploit" the disadvantaged residents who face eviction from the low-income apartment building owned by his church.

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Georgia Launches Investigation Into Warnock’s Church Following Free Beacon Report

Georgia has launched an investigation into a charity controlled by the church that pays Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) a $7,417 monthly housing allowance and owns an apartment building that is trying to evict tenants, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

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‘They Treat Me Like a Piece of S—’: Raphael Warnock’s Church Pays for His Home. It’s Also Trying To Evict the Poor From Theirs.

ATLANTA, Ga.—"Unemployment benefits have expired, rent is due today, and many Georgia families are at risk of eviction in the middle of a pandemic," Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) wrote in a tweet in August 2020, charging that by failing to act, his political opponents were "clearly only concerned with serving their own interests."

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Two Pennsylvania Dems Pushed for Taxpayer-Funded Landlord Relief. Both Are Landlords.

Two Pennsylvania Democrats who collected tens of thousands of dollars in rental income in 2020 pushed for taxpayer-funded relief for landlords without acknowledging that they could profit from the policy.

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