L15-II-11 【rent control ordinances】
| redu通过排除法很容易选对，但是不知道d中的shortage会发生是怎么推出来的？
主要是没看懂文章中讲的...a shortage of rental units. This disadvantage for renters occurs over the long run, but the advantage --smaller rent increases--occurs immediately. 和最后一句“the desire for short --term gain that guides those tenants in the exercise ”的关系
长期control下去会有disadv，但是好处是短期内rent不会增加很多。
但是短期获利驱使tenant做什么呢？不懂最后一句话的意思。
11. Unless they are used as strictly temporary measures, rent-control ordinances ( municipal regulations placing limits on rent increases) have several negative effects for renters. One of these is that the controls will bring about a shortage of rental units. This disadvantage for renters occurs over the long run, but the advantage --smaller rent increases--occurs immediately. In many municipalities, specifically in all those where tenants of rent-control units have a secure hold on political power and can get rent-control ordinances enacted or repealed, it is invariably the desire for short --term gain that guides those tenants in the exercise of that power.
If the statements above are true, which one of the following can be properly inferred form them?
(A) It is impossible for landlords to raise rents when rent controls are in effect.
(B) In many municipalities rent-control ordinances are repealed as soon as shortages of rental unites arise.
(C) The only negative effect of tent control for renters is that it brings about a shortage of rental units.
(D) In many municipalities there is now, or eventually will be, a shortage of rental units. (E) In the long term, a shortage of rental units will raise rents substantially. |
