This is Episode 14 of The Seen and the Unseen, the weekly podcast hosted by our editor, Amit Varma.
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Rent control is a classic example of a regulation meant to help the poor that ends up hurting everyone. Alex Tabarrok joins Amit Varma to discuss how real estate in Mumbai would be so much cheaper if not for such government regulation.