They can potentially reduce the amount of expensive urban office space while still hiring from that very rich talent pool.

What she meant of course, was that I should be writing articles and books on literature and society as an academic myself.My mind snapped right here to Bigger Pockets, to the three garage bays of stuff I got from the review writing I used to do for Home Depot, to all the possibilities involved in starting my own blog and my own video channel in home improvement and DIY landlording. 

In addition, this is promoting the corpretocracy that is very apparent in todays society.

Finally had to give that up.If you own, manage, and maintain a C-class portfolio in an urban area that you also live in, one of the basic rules of hands-on landlording is that you must never outdrive, outdress, or outcrib your tenants.

Seems to be a trend with many urban areas that have high taxation.  

@Mike Fletcher  This issue is happening in every urban area in the country with jobs. 

From Urban Institute, to Business Insider Mag, to The Economist all have same result:https://caanet.org/app/uploads/2016/02/Jan2016_Ren...This is one by "The Economist" which is a popular economy magazine:http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/...A housing/planning and urban development website:http://marketurbanism.com/2016/04/02/rent-control-...Foundation for Economic Education:https://fee.org/articles/the-case-against-rent-con...Business Insider:http://www.businessinsider.com/does-rent-control-w...CEI:https://cei.org/blog/rent-control-why-it-so-bad

@Tesho Akindele how far away from an urban hub are you comfortable with?

Point is - the government/society wants good little worker bees who don't ask questions.

The world is becoming more urbanized, not less (I teach this subject in grad school) and NYC is still one of the top 5 urban landscapes on the planet.