The deadweight loss from a rent ceiling below the equilibrium rent is smallest when the supply of housing is

A) perfectly elastic.
B) elastic but not perfectly elastic.
C) unit elastic.
D) inelastic but not perfectly inelastic.
E) perfectly inelastic.


E

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