The social impact of BlockPark is a big one. The platform uncouples tenant rent increases from outside market drivers such as inflation and housing bubbles which are a few of the main reasons landlords have to raise rent in order to grow, or even keep their yields. Many cities try to help this problem by instituting rent control ordinances or providing rental assistance programs to help ease the hardship of tenants. However, rent control limits the returns a landlord can make which disincentives a landlord to make upgrades or even necessary repairs to the property. Government assistance programs usually come with a lot of red tape for tenants to receive and they are too limited in funds to solve the problem. Thus, a depreciating asset is created which in turn brings down the value of its community