Rent Laws between Control and Liberalization, and their Impacts on Urban Transformations
(This article is based on a presentation at the seminar: Housing Policies, Rent Control, and Property Taxation in Lebanon: Towards a Socially Just Model of Urban Development, IFI-AUB and KAS, Beirut, October 24, 2014) Housing is at once a prime necessity and a most formidable instrument of oppression. Argentina Supreme Court, Ercolano v. Lanteri, 136…