Sir, – The Dutch central bank president Klass Knot has called for a reversal of rent controls in The Netherlands, as he says the data tells him it has failed.
It’s time for the Irish Government to realise that there’s a difference between being seen to do “something” and actually doing something useful.
The only way to reduce rents is to increase supply. Rent controls don’t work, evidently, because they disincentive supply. – Yours, etc,
CHARLES McLAUGHLIN,
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Portobello,
Dublin 8.
